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I think everyone's inherently snobbish. Things that are very popular are not taken seriously, because the snobbish side of one says, 'Well, if everyone likes it it can't be that good.' Whereas if only I and a couple of other people like it, then it must be really something special.
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They are able who think they are able.

-- Virgil

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Serious men," "grave persons" and "reasonable people"; favorite locutions of our sad world where egotism takes its word of command from pedantry
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The language of elitism smells bad! It is not healthy to believe that we are the only ones to have captured truth and even less healthy to condemn others.
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I was not a collective person or a bohemian; I was an elitist.
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scaremongers - who unquestioningly champion anecdotal data, while meticulously examining every large, carefully conducted study on the same subject for any small chink that would permit them to dismiss it entirely.
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In contrast, upgrading the healthy is an elitist project, because it rejects the idea of a universal standard applicable to all and seeks to give some individuals an edge over others. People want superior memories, above-average intelligence and first-class sexual abilities.
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Usually what everyone knows is insulting and sort of ableist, because the people who know everything always seem to think of themselves as being perfectly normal.
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There is a certain category of fool-the overeducated, the academic, the journalist, the newspaper reader, the mechanistic scientist, the pseudo-empiricist, those endowed with what I call epistemic arrogance, this wonderful ability to discount what they did not see, the unobserved.
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It's a fundamental, social attitude that the 1% supports symphonies and operas and doesn't support Johnny learning to program hip-hop beats. When I put it like that, it sounds like, 'Well, yeah,' but you start to think, 'Why not, though?' What makes one more valuable than another?
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Morons, you can't do much with them, but it gives you a feeling that you're better than you really are.
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Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America.
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The ones who're so upset about everybody not being the same, about competition, about standards of quality, about art objects having 'auras' around them, they're usually people with average abilities and average minds. And below average senses of humor.
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A people without the knowledge of ...
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people who feel that fiction should be easy to read, that it's a popular medium
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Ignorance,... wow sounds like you are now in it... so you came out here... so welcome to my club ignored!
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Art forms of the past were really considered elitist. Bach did not compose for the masses, neither did Beethoven. It was always for patrons, aristocrats, and royalty. Now we have a sort of democratic version of that, which is to say that the audience is so splintered in its interests.
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People who think honestly and deeply have a hostile attitude towards the public.
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They think that they're smart and that the rest of us are dumb.
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Obstinate people can be divided into the opinionated, the ignorant, and the boorish.
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The most arrogant and admired people have a special kind of ignorance that the ignorant cannot see.
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Snobbery is the pride of those who are not sure of their position.
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Who are these people, and why do they think their own opinions are the only right ones?
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For Whom the Snob Trolls
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We like to think that all people have hidden depths, but the fact is that a lot of people are shallow.
The vast majority don't have an opinion until they tune in to AM radio or read the papers. Then they become social critics.
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The rich. You know why they're so odd? Because they can afford to be.
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Old people. They don't know shit. This generation is moving faster.
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And then there are the laziest and most presumptuous of people, those who can read but who don't bother, who live in the smuggest ignorance and seem to me dangerous.
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These are fashionable people who call themselves philosophers.
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They are the kind of people who are embarrassed by money, a dead middle-class giveaway. Poor people are not embarrassed by money and are contemptuous of those who are.
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You will always find that those are most apt to boast of national merit, who have little or not merit of their own to depend on ...
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An immense percentage of snobs, I believe, is to be found in every rank of this mortal life.
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There will always be those people who are just backward and ignorant. There will always be those people. They need somebody to feel superior to.
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People who make the choice to study, work hard or do whatever they endeavor is to give it the max on themselves to reach to the top level. And you have the people who get envy and jealous, yet are not willing to put that work in, and they want to get the same praise.
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My tastes in all things lean towards the arty and boring. I like sports documentaries about Scrabble players, bands that play quiet, unassuming music, and TV shows that win awards. In that way, I am an elitist snob.
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The ignorant ever shun and dread the gifted and enlightened.
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Hyperentrepreneurs that make even hardcore capitalists nervous.
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You must not judge hastily or vulgarly of Snobs: to do so shows that you are yourself a Snob.
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It is the intelligent and highly educated that agonize over their limitations.
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The naysayers, they don't mean a thing.
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The arrogance of the intellectual. The delusion that we have more balls in the brain to juggle than most people.
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Pedants, who have the least knowledge to be proud of, are impelled most by vanity.
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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.'
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Why do those people guess so much and shave so little, and are so disdainful of hearing aids?
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People mistake their limitations for high standards.
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Those wretches who never have experienced the sweets of wisdom and virtue, but spend all their time in revels and debauches, sink downward day after day, and make their whole life one continued series of errors.
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People who can't rely on their wits and intelligence to reach success
that's not what government is about, and that's not what I want.
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They [human beings] are unwilling to gamble that God made those people who are skilled at rational argumentation uniquely virtuous. They protect themselves and others from cleverness by obscuring their preferences.
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Slothful, feeble, pretentious, pedantic, elitist - these are some of the epithets that eventually become associated with the absent minded scholar, the poor sighted reader, the book worm, the nerd.
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There are very few intellectual elites and those who think they are, are merely not and those who are not shows us the intellectual power of human mind.
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There's something in life that's cool, it's relatively cheap, and fun, and populist. Even when it's elitist.
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Snobbery is not merely a silly human weakness but something basic in the mentality of modern man-a symptom which reflects the general sickness, the dislocation of social and cultural values in contemporary civilization.
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Scientists - the crowd that for dash and style make the general public look like the Bloomsbury set.
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Sometimes the ignorant are among the most educated.
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After all, people with a herd instinct hold mediocrity in high esteem. They praise it as having great value. They believe they are strong because they are the majority.
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What's wrong with "the new elite?" Forget cultural insularity or smugness. The main problem with the "new elite" is that they're not an elite at all. That is, they aren't particularly smart, or competent.
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Snobbery is one of the things one should be most discriminating about
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It is, of course, the first recourse of every elitist to see social barbarism in others.
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The avant-garde in every field consists of the lonely, the friendless, the uninvited. All progress is the product of the unpopular.
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There are two types of people ... the scrutinizers and the scrutinized
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In the new media age, everybody is a historian, or a scientist, or a preacher, or a sage. And if everyone is an expert, then nobody is, and the worst thing you can be in a society where everybody is an expert is, well, an actual expert.
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The Baby Boomers: whiny, narcissistic, self-indulgent people with a simple philosophy: "Gimme that! It's mine!"
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True individualists tend to be quite unobservant; it is the snob, the would be sophisticate, the frightened conformist, who keeps a fascinated or worried eye on what is in the wind.
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These terrible sociologists, who are the astrologers and alchemists of our twentieth century.
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Some of the stupidest brilliant people who ever lived.
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Sigh. These were my people now that I was a writer, people who didn't understand anything. I mean, they understood perfectly the thing I cared most about - books - but basically were moron-level elsewhere.
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Anyone must be mainly ignorant or thoughtless, who is surprised at everything he sees; or wonderfully conceited who expects everything to conform to his standard of propriety.
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There's a lot of people talking about elitism and all of that.Yes, I went to Princeton and Harvard, but the lens through which I see the world is the lens that I grew up with. I am the product of a working class upbringing.
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The Self-Educated are marked by stubborn peculiarities.
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Snobs are people who look down on other people, but that does not justify our looking down on them. Who can say what dark fears of being inferior lurk behind their superior airs or what they suffer in private for the slights they dish out in public?
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I'd like to say it is only average people who revel in the mistakes of others.
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Respectable Professors of the Dismal Science.
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A cultural snob is someone who claims to be familiar with the incomprehensible.
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Isn't it curious that narrow-minded people are often the most thickheaded?
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Maybe people who have had too much of it. Or people who have had too little. Or people who are too shallow to appreciate its hard edges.
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Snobbery might sometimes look cool, like smoking, but the end result is usually a repelling one.
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Smug respectability, like the poor, we've had with us always. Today, however, ... such obtuseness is an indulgence we can no longer afford. The computer, nuclear energy for better or worse, and sudden, simultaneous influences upon everyone's TV screen have raised the ante and the risk considerably.
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Sometimes I view members of the elite with an almost primal scorn - recently, an acquaintance used the word "confabulate" in a sentence, and I just wanted to scream. But
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Why is it that the uneducated minds always criticize the brilliant minds?
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The rich - they just live in another realm, really.
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The world is full of vulgar Purists, who bring discredit on all selection by the silliness of their choice; and this the more, because the very becoming a Purist is commonly indicative of some slight degree of weakness, readiness to be offended, or narrowness of understanding of the ends of things.
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We think very few people sensible, except those who are of our opinion.
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The narrow-minded who undertake any work will never be satisfied. They cannot understand the actions of those who are large hearted and broad-minded.
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People are experience-rich and theory-poor.
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The very rich and the very social are, often, the very stuffy.
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All the people I know have been conditioned by snobbery.
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Only people who are well off can be - complex.
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The fool generalizes the particular; the nerd particularizes the general; some do both; and the wise does neither
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Nothing is more surprising than the easiness with which the many are governed by the few.
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There is a certain race of men that either imagine it their duty, or make it their amusement, to hinder the reception of every work of learning or genius, who stand as sentinels in the avenues of fame, and value themselves upon giving Ignorance and Envy the first notice of a prey.
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Those who believe they are ugly / objectify the rest of us.
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People who are much too sensitive to demand of cripples that they run races ask of the poor that they get up and act just like everyone else in the society.
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Those readiest to criticise are often least able to appreciate.
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It is impossible, in our condition of Society, not to be sometimes a Snob.
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Those that achieve anything that looks beyond the vision and thinking of their peers provoke jealousy and hatred disguised as the ordinary.
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One of the categories of people I don't like much are intellectuals. People say, 'Oh, you're an intellectual,' and I say, 'No!' What is an intellectual? An intellectual is somebody who thinks ideas are more important than people.
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who accompany ignorants, lives in misery.
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Blind wantons like the gulls who scream
And rip the edge off any ideal or dream.
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The bourgeois are other people.
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There are a great many simpletons who know themselves to be so, and who make a very cunning use of their own simplicity.