1. elite - Noun
2. elite - Adjective
3. elite - Adjective Satellite
A choice or select body; the flower; as, the elite of society.
Source: Webster's dictionaryOnly the mob and the elite can be attracted by the momentum of totalitarianism itself. The masses have to be won by propaganda. Hannah Arendt
The political lesson of Watergate is this: Never again must America allow an arrogant, elite guard of political adolescents to by-pass the regular party organization and dictate the terms of a national election. Gerald Ford
We must confront the privileged elite who have destroyed a large part of the world. Hugo Chávez
The work that is truly productive is the domain of a steadily smaller and more elite fraction of humanity. Vernor Vinge
The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school [in the 1960s] may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone. Camille Paglia
If, for example, a conspiratorially minded elite is so powerful, has at its fingertips such multiple and delicate instruments with which to fine-tune accumulation, then how can the periodic headlong slides into crisis be explained? David Harvey