A monopoly on the means of communication may define a ruling elite more precisely than the celebrated Marxian formula of monopoly in the means of production.
Robert Anton Wilson

According to Goering and the Luftwaffe High Command, they were supposed to be the fighter elite.
Adolf Galland

Among the world elite there are a handful of athletes who are physically capable of winning it.
Maurice Greene

Are we like late Rome, infatuated with past glories, ruled by a complacent, greedy elite, and hopelessly powerless to respond to changing conditions?
Camille Paglia

Beating up on the so-called elite media has a nice populist ring to it.
Bill Keller

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.
Tom Lantos

Each honest calling, each walk of life, has its own elite, its own aristocracy based on excellence of performance.
James Bryant Conant

Everyone has the impulse to be elite.
Alfre Woodard

Everyone should have the same opportunity, and in many areas that's not the case because programs are built around the elite.
Bobby Orr

I am concerned about how to reverse the process by which a fundamentalist right and a corporate elite were able to seize power in the United States.
Todd Gitlin

I confront the European elite's self-image as tolerant 'while under their noses women are living like slaves.
Ayaan Hirsi Ali

I don't think we're as divided as many in the elite would have us believe.
Ed Gillespie

I have long observed that the act of writing is viewed, by some, as an elite and otherworldly act, all the more so if a person isn't paid for what she writes.
Joyce Maynard

I think the art world... is a very small pond, and it's a very inbred pond. They rely on information from an elect elite sect of galleries, primarily in New York.
Thomas Kinkade

I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.
Steven Pinker

I won't apologize for ticket prices. I think we're well worth it. We consider ourselves in the elite touring acts, like the Stones, Elton John, Paul McCartney.
Glenn Frey

I'm not part of the cultural elite. I'm a down-home girl. Always have been, always will be.
Lauren Hutton

If all ideas have to be bought, then you have an intellectually regressive system that will assure you have a highly knowledgeable elite and an ignorant mass.
John Perry Barlow

If the business community and political elite want to go to war they find it easy to mobilize domestic consent.
Edward S. Herman

If the cultural elite has its way, the U.S. will be much more like Europe.
Peter L. Berger