{"quotes":[{"text":"Robert Ashford possessed one of the key character flaws necessary to a traitor. He thought he was smarter than everyone else. This allowed the overeducated career bureaucrat to sell out his own country, because he believed he knew what was best for his nation and its people.","author":"Brad Thor","tags":["anointed","elite","traitors","vanity"],"id":6787,"author_id":"Brad+Thor"},{"text":"I would like Britain - and indeed other countries - to be run in the interests of people's needs and aspirations, rather than on the basis of profit for a small elite; for democracy to be democratically managed by working people; for democracy to be extended as far as possible, including in the workplace and the economy.","author":"Owen Jones","tags":["democracy","economy","elite","government","politics","the-establishment"],"id":28144,"author_id":"Owen+Jones"},{"text":"Any government that places profit before people is pure evil.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["bad","blood","capitalism","capitalist","colonialism","corporations","corporatism","corrupt","corruption","deceit","deception","elections","elite","empire","evil","free","freed","freedom","greedy","human-life","imperialism","liberty","lives","media","money","occupation","people","people-before-profit","politics","power","power-to-the-people","profit","profitable","profits","profits-before-people","society","suzy-kassem","treason","tyranny"],"id":61111,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Jefferson's fear was that without such a system of public education, the country would end up being ruled by a privileged elite that would recycle itself through a network of private institutions that entrenched their advantages.","author":"Fareed Zakaria","tags":["america","corporatism","education","elite","founding-fathers","jefferson","privilege"],"id":118134,"author_id":"Fareed+Zakaria"},{"text":"Shame on the misguided, the blinded, the distracted and the divided. Shame. You have allowed deceptive men to corrupt and desensitize your hearts and minds to unethically fuel their greed.","author":"Suzy Kassem","tags":["apathetic","apathy","big-business","blid","blind","blood","business","compassionate","corrupt","corrupt-men","corruption","corruption-politics","dark-amitions","decieve","desensitization","desensitize","desensitized","devil","distracted","distractions","distration","distrust","divide","divided","division","elite","empathy","ethical","ethics","evil","evil-thoughts","false-leaders","free-your-mind","fuel","greed","greedy","hearts","human","human-condition","humanism","humanity","lies","lost","lost-humanity","media","mind","misguide","mislead","peace","politicians","politics","pollute","power","sensitivity","shame","stray","trust","truth","unethical","unethically","united","unity","war","wealth"],"id":198410,"author_id":"Suzy+Kassem"},{"text":"Champions realise that defeat - and learning from it even more than from winning - is part of the path to mastery.","author":"Rasheed Ogunlaru","tags":["athletes-and-attitude","business","champion","champion","elite","inspirational","leadership","loss","master","mastering-things","mastering-your-craft","mastery-of-oneself","mastery-of-skills","motivational","rasheed-ogunlaru","rasheed-ogunlaru","sports","success","victory","victory","winning-and-losing","winning"],"id":254225,"author_id":"Rasheed+Ogunlaru"},{"text":"The courtroom is one instance of the fact that while our society may be liberal and democratic in some large and vague sense, its moving parts, its smaller chambers--its classrooms, its workplaces, its corporate boardrooms, its jails, its military barracks--are flagrantly undemocratic, dominated by one commanding person or a tiny elite of power.","author":"Howard Zinn","tags":["commandeering","concentration-of-power","courtroom","domination","elite","injustice","power"],"id":262601,"author_id":"Howard+Zinn"},{"text":"There is today a division of labor between the elite and the masses. In medieval Europe aristocrats spent their money carelessly on extravagant luxuries whereas peasants lived frugally minding every penny. Today the tables have turned. The rich take great care managing their assets and investments, while the less well-heeled go into debt buying cars and televisions they don't really need.","author":"Yuval Noah Harari","tags":["division-of-labor","elite","inequality","masses","poor","rich"],"id":277426,"author_id":"Yuval+Noah+Harari"},{"text":"Voters inclined to loathe and fear elite Ivy League schools rarely make fine distinctions between Yale and Harvard. All they know is that both are full of rich, fancy, stuck-up and possibly dangerous intellectuals who never sit down to supper in their undershirt no matter how hot the weather gets.","author":"Russell Baker","tags":["elections","elite","ivy-league","summer","working-class"],"id":288566,"author_id":"Russell+Baker"},{"text":"Planet Earth has rules that can’t be broken, no matter how rich or poor you are. You either have a nine to five job, you’re an artist constantly producing art, you’re a businessman, or you stay home cleaning and taking care of children. And no matter if you’re a man or a woman, the same rule applies to you. You break it, and life breaks you.","author":"Robin Sacredfire","tags":["elite","investments","money","poor","prosperity","rich","spiritual","spiritual-laws-of-money","spiritual-money","spiritual-wealth","spirituality","wealth","wealthy"],"id":306478,"author_id":"Robin+Sacredfire"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":23,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}