Best democracy & elitism Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“I think art has a right — not an obligation — to be difficult if it wishes. And, since people generally go on from this to talk about elitism versus democracy, I would add that genuinely difficult art is truly democratic.”

People Ifs Thinking Art Wish Difficult Democracy Goes On Art Is Add Democratic Obligation Versus Elitism

Author:Geoffrey Hill

“Indeed, it is impossible to be neutral. In a world already moving in certain directions, where wealth and power are already distributed in certain ways, neutrality means accepting the way things are now. It is a world of clashing interests war against peace, nationalism against internationalism, equality against greed, and democracy against elitism and it seems to me both impossible and undesirable to be neutral in those conflicts.”

Source: Passionate Declarations: Essays on War and Justice

“From the elitism of luxury to the democracy of beauty.”

Democracy Luxury Elitism

Author:Giorgio Armani

“Democracy is the fig leaf of elitism.”

Democracy Leafs Elitism Figs Chinks

Book:Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye

Source: Reflections In A Jaundiced Eye

“There is a vulgar persuasion, that the ignorance of women, by favoring their subordination, ensures their utility. 'Tis the same argument employed by the ruling few against the subject many in aristocracies; by the rich against the poor in democracies; by the learned professions against the people in all countries.”

People Country Poor Democracy Rich Subjects Ignorance Argument Profession Persuasion Employed Vulgar Ruling Utility Aristocracy Elitism Subordination

Book:Course of popular lectures as delivered by Frances Wright: with three addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789. Second edition

Source: Course of popular lectures as delivered by Frances Wright: with three addresses on various public occasions, and a reply to the charges against the French reformers of 1789. Second edition

“As the only class distinction available in a democracy, the college degree has created a caste society as rigid as ancient India's. Condemning elitism and simultaneously quaking in fear that our children won't become members of the elite, we send them to college, not to learn, but to "be" college graduates, rationalizing our snobbery with the cliché that high technology has eliminated the need for the manual labor that we secretly hold in contempt.”

Source: Lump It Or Leave It

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