权力精英由那些其职位使他们能够超越普通男女的普通环境的人组成；他们处于能够做出具有重大后果的决策的位置。
It's so much darker when a light goes out than it would have been if it had never shone.
The development of modern culture is characterized by the predominance of what one might call the objective spirit over the subjective spirit.