Michel Foucault

This non-proletarianised plebs has been racialist when it has been colonialist; it has been nationalist - chauvinist - when it has been armed; and it has been fascist when it has become the police force.These ideological effects on the plebs have been uncontestable and profound.

French Historian

Huston Smith

I'm not a chauvinist. I'm a universalist. I think that God imploded, like a spiritual big bang, to launch the eight civilizations that make up recorded history and the religions in those civilizations.

American Theologian

Edgar Mitchell

My wife tells me I am a male chauvinist pig and I have to sort of admit it. In my office and in my home, I'm not very democratic. I think of myself as a benevolent dictator.

American Astronaut

Simon Schama

By the end of the nineteenth century, the stereotype of the ugly American - voracious, preachy, mercenary, and bombastically chauvinist - was firmly in place in Europe.

British Historian

Gloria Steinem

How could you not love Norman Mailer? He was a total chauvinist, but also so vulnerable.

American Activist

Subramanian Swamy

My critics began saying I was a chauvinist, nationalist, mad nationalist.

Indian Politician

Bobby Riggs

If I am to be a chauvinist pig, I want to be the number one pig.

American Athlete

Sheila Hancock

I'm wildly left wing, but I'm also a terrible chauvinist.

Joe Bob Briggs

I AM a male chauvinist. Who's been saying otherwise?

American Critic

Bebe Buell

Men from my generation are chauvinist pigs!

American Model

Use 'chauvinist' in situations where someone shows unfair bias towards their group.

Context Sensitive

'Chauvinist' is a negative word and can offend people if directed at them.

Offensive Term

Being aware that 'chauvinist' can have sexist implications, especially relating to male attitudes towards women.

Social Implications

Remember 'chauvinist' as an adjective carries a negative judgment towards expressed beliefs.

Negative Connotation

Avoid using 'chauvinist' in a light-hearted or joking manner; it is usually taken very seriously.

Not Light-Hearted

The adjective 'chauvinist' often points to an individual’s personal bias rather than a group consensus.

Personal Bias

 as an analogy to what happens at universities when professors get tenure, but that's a different subject. So I am a movement chauvinist. I believe movement is the most important function of the brain -- don't let anyone tell you that it's not true. Now if movement is so important,

Daniel Wolpert: The real...

 professors get tenure but that's as so I am a movement chauvinist I believe movement is the most important function in the brain that anyone tell you that's not true now if movement is so important how well are we doing understanding how the brain