Like most intellectuals he is intensely stupid.

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

— Marcel Proust

[One task of intellectuals is] to break down the stereotypes and reductive categories that are . . . limiting to human thought and communication.

— Edward Said

The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since…

— George Orwell

All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals

— Antonio Gramsci

“The fatal conceit of intellectuals, he said, is to think that smart people can design an economy or a society better than the apparently…

— David Boaz

What do intellectuals and opinion makers get from big government? An increasing number of cushy jobs in the bureaucracy, or in the government-subsidized sector,…

— Murray Rothbard

“As things stand the "intellectuals" only come out to lick the bones left over by the tyrant.”

— Nilantha Ilangamuwa

Designers may be the true intellectuals of the future.

— Paola Antonelli

Intellectuals (in the standard sense of the term, not [ Edward] Said's prescriptive sense) are the people who write history.

— Noam Chomsky

Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on…

— Ricky Skaggs

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works. Jacques Barzun, 1959 all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

— e. e. cummings

There was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For intellectuals would never be converted and would anyway always yield to the stronger,…

— Joseph Goebbels

“The passion with which native intellectuals defend the existence of their national culture may be a source of amazement; but those who condemn this…

— Frantz Fanon

“...he was one of the great intellectuals of the 1940s who completed their higher studies in the West and returned to their country to…

— Alaa Al Aswany

Writers and intellectuals have a duty to humanity. It is to insist that the human entity remains the primary asset in overall development; thus,…

— Wole Soyinka