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From the elitism of luxury to the democracy of beauty.
If there's one epithet the Right never tires of, it's 'elitism.'
I like the elitism of the art world. I think art for the people is a terrible idea.
'Worshipping in private,' as Obama does, comes off as just another form of annoying elitism.
Clericalism is a form of elitism in which some are viewed as having special rights and privileges.
I don't believe in elitism. I don't think the audience is this dumb person lower than me. I am the audience.
I think that in the past there has been a kind of cultural resistance to Latin because it's associated with elitism.
Americans worship creativity the way they worship physical beauty - as a way of enjoying elitism without guilt: God did it.
We never see the fancy schools with the blazers and ties in films about Africa! But, in fact, we too have class and elitism.
Being slim is the new elitism. Thinness today says that you are richer, smarter and more successful than the overweight masses.
When I was growing up, there was a feeling in one's living room as much as in one's local gallery that a little elitism was good for the soul.
I believe elitism in politics is over, and a new path to achieving democracy should be charted by young people who have the most at stake in the future of our city.
There's a certain elitism that has crept into the attitudes of some in journalism, and it played out perfectly over the issue of these little American flag lapel pins.
The belief that the law will never 'catch up' to technology is borne in part of tech exceptionalism, a libertarian elitism that derides any kind of legal or regulatory impediment as Luddism.
Of course, there's a certain type of person who feels that anything which becomes mainstream has to be rejected immediately. And that's part of the indie-alternative snobbery and hierarchy and elitism.
In every election cycle that I can recall, there comes a moment - or a few - where charges of elitism and claims of commonness are wielded by presidential candidates like a sword and shield: 'Vote for me 'cause I'm one of you. It's the other guy who's out of touch.'
As I got into middle school, I was really an outcast. But everybody was an outcast in middle school. I don't know who got the idea to put all kids going through puberty together in a school and give them academic elitism and competition and pit them against each other.
Free verse seemed democratic because it offered freedom of access to writers. And those who disdained free verse would always be open to accusations of elitism, mandarinism. Open form was like common ground on which all might graze their cattle - it was not to be closed in by usurping landlords.
There's something strange about theater. My characters consistently demonize elitism, but of course it's taking place in a theater where only so many people can see it. I've been in silly popcorn movies - the kind of thing that as an actor you might feel embarrassed about - but those movies reach many more people.
