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“Enforced by genetics, sexual reproduction, perspective, and experience, the most manifest characteristic of human beings is their diversity. The freer an economy is, the more this human diversity of knowledge will be manifested. By contrast, political power originates in top-down processes-governments, monopolies, regulators, and elite institutions- all attempting to quell human diversity and impose order. Thus power always seeks centralization.”

“Despite its enormous power and wealth, China's ruling elite remains absolutely petrified that the free flow of information will undermine its political legitimacy, particularly among China's younger generation.”

Political Wealth Generations Information Flow Remains China Enormous Despite Elites Ruling Legitimacy Younger Generation

Author:Tom Lantos

“No, most of our political elite has not realized that the world is flat.”

World Political Flats Elites World Is Flat

Author:Thomas Friedman

“It is our great collective misfortune that the scientific community made its decisive diagnosis of the climate threat at the precise moment when an elite minority was enjoying more unfettered political, cultural, and intellectual power than at any point since the 1920s.”

Made Moments Science Political Enjoy Community Intellectual Threat Climate Minorities Collectives Misfortunes Elites Precise Diagnosis

Book:This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate

Source: This Changes Everything: Capitalism Vs. The Climate

“Above all things the mass-mind is most bitterly resentful of superiority. It will not tolerate the thought of an elite; and under a political system of universal suffrage, the mass-mind is enabled to make its antipathies prevail.”

Mind Political Mass All Things Universal Elites Tolerate Superiority Political Systems Suffrage Resentful Antipathy Universal Suffrage

Author:Albert J. Nock

“Investment that only goes to enrich an already wealthy elite bent on monopolizing both economic and political power cannot contribute toward égalité and justice - the foundation stones for a sound democracy.”

Political Sound Justice Democracy Economic Stones Foundation Investment Wealthy Elites Bent Political Power Monopolizing

Author:Aung San Suu Kyi

“If all our political and intellectual elite offers by way of a national culture is "pop music, gambling, fashionable clothes or television," then we can neither mount a convincing intellectual defense against our enemies, nor hope to integrate intelligent, inquiring, and unfulfilled Muslim youths young men principally, of course to our way of life.”

“The great goal of the backlash is to nurture a cultural class war, and the first step in doing so, as we have seen, is to deny the economic basis of social class. After all, you can hardly deride liberals as society's "elite" or present the GOP as the party of the common man if you acknowledge the existence of the corporate world - the power that creates the nation's real elite, that dominates its real class system, and that wields the Republican Party as its personal political sidearm.”

“We know next to nothing about the relationship between Chavez and Raul Castro. One thing, though, is certain. The Cuban military and political elite do not regard Chavez as a logical successor to Fidel Castro in Latin America.”

Knows America Political Certain Next One Thing Military Regard Logical Latin Elites Latin America Cuban Successors Castro Chavez

Author:Mark Falcoff

“There is an element of delusional obsession in the French political elite's preoccupation with the notion that France is still a global power.”

Stills Political Elements Notion Obsession France Elites Preoccupation Delusional

Book:The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives

Source: The Grand Chessboard: American Primacy And Its Geostrategic Imperatives

“In some of the countries where we operate, there is a tradition of corruption, in which the political elites work with business in the framework of unsavory relationships.”

Country Political Economy Tradition Corruption Elites Framework

Author:Lee R. Raymond

“There is a single theme behind all our work-we must reduce population levels. Either governments do it our way, through nice clean methods, or they will get the kinds of mess that we have in El Salvador, or in Iran or in Beirut. Population is a political problem. Once population is out of control, it requires authoritarian government, even fascism, to reduce it.”

“Leftism has influenced the literary, academic, media, and, therefore, the political elite far more than any other religion. It has taken over Western schools from elementary through graduate.”

School Political Taken Media Western Graduates Academic Elites

Book:Dennis Prager: Volume I

Source: Dennis Prager: Volume I

“Remember the referendum on the Charlottetown constitutional accord? The more Canada's political and business elites threatened Canadians that the country would disappear into a black hole if the accord weren't passed, the more Canadians opposed it.”

Ifs Country Remember Political Black Disappear Holes Canada Elites Threatened Accord Black Hole Referendums

Author:Preston Manning