Western intellectual Islamologists have totally failed in their duties as intellectuals. They have betrayed their calling by abandoning their critical faculties when… — Wafa Sultan Copy Share Image
Intellectuals, who go after the crowd - have never been intellectuals. Intellectuals should either lead the crowd after themselves, or completely isolate… — Ilkin Santak Copy Share Image
French intellectuals are mostly petit bourgeois, and it's hard to say whether that makes [Albert] Camus' work more valuable. — Catherine Camus Copy Share Image
There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous… — Will Self Copy Share Image
I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
Intellectuals are people who manage the world in their head. They look at life and try to see some kind of truth,… — Yair Lapid Copy Share Image
Intellectuals ought to study the past not for the pleasure they find in so doing, but to derive lessons from it. — Cheikh Anta Diop Copy Share Image
France is an idea, not a territory. They pay more attention to intellectuals here; they give artists and writers the feeling they're… — Theodore Zeldin Copy Share Image
I think that those of us who are what are called intellectuals make a terrible mistake in overvaluing the yen we have… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
“If nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come, nothing is more harmful than an idea which is manipulated… — Mohammad Badrul Ahsan Copy Share Image
“The family, with all its undoubted miseries (as well, of course, as joys) has long been the object of hate of ambitious… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
We have so few unaffiliated public intellectuals now - people who are not beholden to a think tank, corporate-owned media, or academic… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
Mainstream Jewish intellectuals became 'pro'-Israel after the June 1967 war when Israel became the U.S.A.' s strategic asset in the Middle East,… — Norman Finkelstein Copy Share Image
I've always thought Anne-Marie Slaughter would make a fantastic United States Senator or something. She's a real intellectual, but she's got enormous… — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
“Atheism or similar charges was not unusual among intellectuals, nor condemned by the masses. The prize-winning plays of Aristophanes were not merely… — Benjamin Jowett Copy Share Image
In a fake and pretending world, being natural and true makes you an alien…attracting the still functional curious brains and boggles out… — Rizzi Vicci Copy Share Image
My career as a critic still lay in the future but unconsciously I may have been preparing for it. They were not… — Diana Trilling Copy Share Image
“Computer science only indicates the retrospective omnipotence of our technologies. In other words, an infinite capacity to process data (but only data… — Jean Baudrillard Copy Share Image
“First, the visionary intellectuals and planners behind them were guilty of hubris, of forgetting that they were mortals and acting as if… — James C. Scott Copy Share Image
Two world wars, three monstrous dictatorships-in Soviet Russia, Nazi Germany, Red China-plus every lesser variant of devastating socialist experimentation in a global… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“The gap (between intellectuals and politicians) divides writing hands, talking heads and thinking minds of this country into two sections. One section… — Mohammad Badrul Ahsan Copy Share Image
“... intellectuals seemed to think that their life - the life of the mind, the endless self examination, the continuous autobiography afflicted… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
In the century that has just passed, many of the intellectual elite went mad. It was as if, with the death of… — Gao Xingjian Copy Share Image
“Compare, for example, seventeenth century writers with those of the eighteenth. What a difference in tone and gait! The former, under a… — Edouard Berth Copy Share Image
The difference between western and eastern intellectuals is that the former have not been kicked in the ass enough. — Witold Gombrowicz Copy Share Image
Professional intellectuals are the voice of a culture and are, therefore, its leaders, its integrators and its bodyguards. — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“National Review's premise was that conformity was especially egregious among the intellectuals, that herd of independent minds.” — George will Copy Share Image
Whether a person's aim purpose is worldly or spiritual, the method to achieve it is the same..training your mind and focusing on… — Simi Ngr Copy Share Image
I'm sorry that I'm an intellectual. I'm not a skeptic, it doesn't take me twenty minutes to philosophically argue what colour the… — Jeremy Limn Copy Share Image
“One must admit that even among intellectuals there are sometimes highly intelligent men; this cannot be denied." (100)” — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it. — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
The more profound problem, however, is the degree to which many academic intellectuals, especially in the humanities, have lost their ability to… — Stephen D. Cox Copy Share Image
Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other… — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals - With no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff. — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
States have always needed intellectuals to con the public into believing that its rule is wise, good, and inevitable — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
Among intellectuals who consider themselves 'scientific,' the phrase 'the nature of man' is apt to have the effect of a red flag… — Murray Rothbard Copy Share Image
The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Wasn't the Treaty of Versailles, wasn't that disproportionately influenced by Jewish intellectuals? Don't get me wrong. I'm not pro-Holocaust. — Gavin McInnes Copy Share Image