Elitism Quotes

“I don't think music is for the multitude. I don't think it ever was.”

“The best of men are not only the fewest, but also the most solitary.”

“Art is not democratic. It is not for the people. It is for the artists.”

“Any country that has tried to create a government of 'the best and the brightest' has ended up with a government of the worst and the dullest.”

“I would rather be governed by the first 2,000 people in the telephone directory than by the 2,000 people on the faculty of Harvard University.”

“We make a great mistake in supposing all people are capable of self-government.”

“Show me an elitist, and I'll show you a loser.”

“No one should be appointed to any high office who is not a gentleman.”

“I paint for the few, not for the many.”

“The public...how vulgar.”

“The case for government by elites is irrefutable.”

“The media is not just liberal, it's lazy. It's lazy and it's elitist.”

“Exposition, criticism, appreciation, is work for second-rate minds.”

“I am a completely unreconstructed snob.”

“I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.”

“The great body of the people are without property, and without principle.”

“The Royal Opera House has always had a reputation for arrogance and elitism.”

“I don't believe in the democratic photograph.”

“The mass-man is one who has neither the force of intellect to apprehend the principles issuing in what we know as the humane life, nor the force of character to adhere to those principles.”

“You don't have to be in 'Who's Who' to know what's what.”