Snobbery – Quotes

The PhD system is

The PhD system is the real root of the evil of academic snobbery. People who have PhDs consider themselves a priesthood, and inventors generally don’t have PhDs. Freeman Dyson

As the only class distinction available in a democracy, the college degree has created a caste society as rigid as ancient India’s. Condemning elitism and simultaneously quaking in fear that our children won’t become members of the elite, we send them to college, not to learn, but to \”be\” college graduates, rationalizing our snobbery with … Read more

There’s no snobbery like

There’s no snobbery like that of the poor toward one another. Dorothy Salisbury Davis

I’ve found there to

I’ve found there to be a tremendous amount of East Coast snobbery in the journalism world. Diane Lane

Whenever summer rolls around

Whenever summer rolls around I begin to realize that I’m a complete and utter book snob. In relation to reading, I have absolutely no guilty pleasures at all. No graphic novels. No murder mysteries. My summer read is really no different from my winter read. I know many bookshops and magazines would have me believe … Read more

Snobbery, being an aspiring

Snobbery, being an aspiring failing, is sometimes the prophecy of better things. Charles Dudley Warner

Ah, beware of snobbery;

Ah, beware of snobbery; it is the unwelcome recognition of one’s own past failings. Cary Grant

That Plato’s Republic should

That Plato’s Republic should have been admired, on its political side, by decent people, is perhaps the most astonishing example of literary snobbery in all history. Bertrand Russell

Snobbery is the pride

Snobbery is the pride of those who are not sure of their position. Berton Braley

But music is, at

But music is, at the very minimum, inflammatory, exclusionary, divisive, encouraging of snobbery and solipsism. Arthur Phillips