By the power elite, we refer to those political, economic, and military circles which as an intricate set of overlapping cliques s...hare decisions having at least national consequences. In so far as national events are decided, the power elite are those who decide them.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Only the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
"Remember When cruelty, metal, public, uncomplex,... Trampled you obviously and every hour. . . ." (Now cruelty flaunts diplomas, is elite, Delicate, has polish, knows how to be discreet) ...LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The consistent anarchist ... should be a socialist, but a socialist of a particular sort. He will not only oppose alienated and sp...ecialized labor and look forward to the appropriation of capital by the whole body of workers, but he will also insist that this appropriation be direct, not exercised by some elite force acting in the name of the proletariat.... Some sort of council communism is the natural form of revolutionary socialism in an industrial society. It reflects the intuitive understanding that democracy is largely a sham when the industrial system is controlled by any form of autocratic elite, whether of owners, managers, and technocrats, a "vanguard" party, or a State bureaucracy.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Every adult, whether he is a follower or a leader, a member of a mass or of an elite, was once a child. He was once small. A sense... of smallness forms a substratum in his mind, ineradicably. His triumphs will be measured against this smallness, his defeats will substantiate it. The questions as to who is bigger and who can do or not do this or that, and to whom--these questions fill the adult's inner life far beyond the necessities and the desirabilities which he understands and for which he plans.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
In pursuit of an educational program to suit the bright and the not so bright, we have watered down a rigid training for the elite... until we now have an educational diet in many of our public high schools that nourishes neither the classes nor the masses.... We must evolve an adjustable curriculum which does not sacrifice the superior student to the drones at a period in our history when we need highly trained people in ever increasing numbers to solve the vast and complex problems which destiny has placed upon our shoulders.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Much of what passes for quality on British television is no more than a reflection of the narrow elite which controls it and has a...lways thought that its tastes were synonymous with quality.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The elite artist knows that his audience views his art in a context of certain predispositions; he anticipates success or failure ...within a definable framework of theory and achievement. His audience is acutely aware of him as an individual, knowing that his primary concern is the interpretation of his individual experience, and that he is personally with the content and technique of his product. The popular artist, however, works under no such set of rules, with a much less predictable audience, and for much less predictable rewards. His relationship with his public is neither direct nor critical, for between him and his audience stand editors, publishers, sponsors, directors, public relations men, wholesalers, exhibitors, merchants, and others who can and often do influence his product.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »