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title: "39 Anti-intellectualism Quotes by 34 authors"
description: "Browse 39 Anti-intellectualism quotes by 34 authors. Discover the best Anti-intellectualism sayings and thoughts."
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> [“Hitler kept the truth from his servile masses. Instead of intellectual persuasion he gave them emotional suggestion.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marc-bloch/hitler-kept-the-truth-from-his-servile-masses-instead-of-intellectual/)

[Marc Bloch](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marc-bloch/)

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> [“Anti-intellectualism is one thing, but faith in wrongheaded pseudointellectualism is far worse.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/anti-intellectualism-is-one-thing-but-faith-in-wrongheaded/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“Where men are heated by zeal and enthusiasm, there is no degree of human testimony so strong as may not be procured…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-hume/where-men-are-heated-by-zeal-and-enthusiasm-there-is-no-degree-of/)

[David Hume](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-hume/)

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> [“She feared long words she did not understand. Beelzebub lay hid among too many syllables.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/algernon-blackwood/she-feared-long-words-she-did-not-understand-beelzebub-lay-hid-among/)

[Algernon Blackwood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/algernon-blackwood/)

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> [“Smart shaming affects society at large by advertising mediocrity, villainizing the intelligent, and idolizing the foolish.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-ravago/smart-shaming-affects-society-at-large-by-advertising-mediocrity/)

[E. Ravago](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-ravago/)

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> [“In a neurotic society, insane ideas can become 'normal', the current triumph of tribalism is the result of rabid global anti-intellectualism.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martinus-hendrikus-benders/in-a-neurotic-society-insane-ideas-can-become-normal-the-current/)

[Martinus Hendrikus Benders](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martinus-hendrikus-benders/)

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> [“The tragedy is that thinking men, so-called intellectuals, seem to threaten the electorate. We have in this country an anti-intellectual strain that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/myrna-loy/the-tragedy-is-that-thinking-men-so-called-intellectuals-seem-to/)

[Myrna Loy](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/myrna-loy/)

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> [“Anti-intellectualism is virtually our civic religion. "Critical thinking" may be a ubiquitous educational slogan—a vaguely defined skill we hope our children pick…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/anti-intellectualism-is-virtually-our-civic-religion-critical/)

[Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/)

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> [“...the danger that American society as a whole will over-esteem intellect or assign it such a transcendent value as to displace other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-hofstadter/the-danger-that-american-society-as-a-whole-will-over-esteem/)

[Richard Hofstadter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-hofstadter/)

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> [“Therefore,' said Loki the mockery, to the snake his daughter, 'we need to know everything, or at least as much as we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/a-s-byatt/therefore-said-loki-the-mockery-to-the-snake-his-daughter-we-need-to/)

[A.S. Byatt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/a-s-byatt/)

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> [“The cosmos stands amazed at just how dumb Planet Dumb is. With an uncanny talent for error, humanity has at every crossroads…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ranty-mcranterson/the-cosmos-stands-amazed-at-just-how-dumb-planet-dumb-is-with-an/)

[Ranty McRanterson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ranty-mcranterson/)

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> [“What they produce is not culture but a population allergic to logic, addicted to drama, and proud of their own mental stagnation.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/e-ravago/what-they-produce-is-not-culture-but-a-population-allergic-to-logic/)

[E. Ravago](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/e-ravago/)

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> [“I do not think he (Chester Arthur) knows anything. He can quote a verse from poetry or a page from Dickens or…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/harriet-blaine/i-do-not-think-he-chester-arthur-knows-anything-he-can-quote-a-verse/)

[Harriet Blaine](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/harriet-blaine/)

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> [“The great rationalist Descartes said, “I think, therefore I am.” The religious mystic the Buddha said, “I think, therefore I am not.”…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-stark/the-great-rationalist-descartes-said-i-think-therefore-i-am-the/)

[Thomas Stark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-stark/)

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> [“The fact that the stupid person is often stubborn must not blind us to the fact that he is not independent. In…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/dietrich-bonhoeffer/the-fact-that-the-stupid-person-is-often-stubborn-must-not-blind-us/)

[Dietrich Bonhoeffer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/dietrich-bonhoeffer/)

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> [“Parents and schools are teaching children how not to think, but how to be good little groupthinkers and people of faith, how…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-sinclair/parents-and-schools-are-teaching-children-how-not-to-think-but-how-to/)

[David Sinclair](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-sinclair/)

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> [“In the life of many churches, the habits of anti-intellectualism are planted early. Children are encouraged to open themselves up to the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-ward/in-the-life-of-many-churches-the-habits-of-anti-intellectualism-are/)

[Jon Ward](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-ward/)

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> [“You could take seriously a president that quoted T. S. Eliot. But none do, and none ever would. No president would ever…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/david-sinclair/you-could-take-seriously-a-president-that-quoted-t-s-eliot-but-none/)

[David Sinclair](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/david-sinclair/)

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> [“Sonnet 1106 When an expert doesn't know something, They say, "I don't know", without tricks. But an armchair intellectual knows it all,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/abhijit-naskar/sonnet-1106-when-an-expert-doesn-t-know-something-they-say-i-don-t/)

[Abhijit Naskar](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/abhijit-naskar/)

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> [“Reason and logic are a force for unity. People can rally around the objective, absolute Truth. All of these are undermined by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joe-dixon/reason-and-logic-are-a-force-for-unity-people-can-rally-around-the/)

[Joe Dixon](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joe-dixon/)

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> [“After the First World War, the man in charge of recruitment at the Colonial Office was Major Ralph Dolignon Furse, a decorated…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/sathnam-sanghera/after-the-first-world-war-the-man-in-charge-of-recruitment-at-the/)

[Sathnam Sanghera](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/sathnam-sanghera/)

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> [“Mindfulness opposes judgment, conceptualization, words, language, reason, logic, knowledge, understanding, science, philosophy, mathematics, history, intellectualism, learning from the past and planning for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-stark/mindfulness-opposes-judgment-conceptualization-words-language-reason/)

[Thomas Stark](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-stark/)

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> [“I love your body 'cause I've lost my mind If you want someone to talk to, you're wasting your time If you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jarvis-cocker/i-love-your-body-cause-i-ve-lost-my-mind-if-you-want-someone-to-talk/)

[Jarvis Cocker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jarvis-cocker/)

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> [“The specific use of folks as an exclusionary and inclusionary signal, designed to make the speaker sound like one of the boys…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/susan-jacoby/the-specific-use-of-folks-as-an-exclusionary-and-inclusionary-signal/)

[Susan Jacoby](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/susan-jacoby/)

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> [“Drilling without thinking has of course been Republican party policy since May 2008. With gas prices soaring to unprecedented heights, that's when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/naomi-klein/drilling-without-thinking-has-of-course-been-republican-party-policy/)

[Naomi Klein](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/naomi-klein/)

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> [“To those who suspect that intellect is a subversive force in society, it will not do to reply that intellect is really…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-hofstadter/to-those-who-suspect-that-intellect-is-a-subversive-force-in-society/)

[Richard Hofstadter](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-hofstadter/)

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> [“And I wonder, therefore, how James Atlas can have been so indulgent in his recent essay ‘The Changing World of New York…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/christopher-hitchens/and-i-wonder-therefore-how-james-atlas-can-have-been-so-indulgent-in/)

[Christopher Hitchens](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/christopher-hitchens/)

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> [“The temporary alliance between the elite and the mob rested largely on this genuine delight with which the former watched the latter…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/hannah-arendt/the-temporary-alliance-between-the-elite-and-the-mob-rested-largely/)

[Hannah Arendt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/hannah-arendt/)

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> [“Since the time of Voltaire and two-chamber Government, which is at bottom simply distrust and personal self-examination, and gives the popular mind…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/stendhal/since-the-time-of-voltaire-and-two-chamber-government-which-is-at/)

[Stendhal](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/stendhal/)

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> [“Mindfulness” is the purest mindlessness. It is the great and perverse desire to annihilate consciousness and exist in an eternal now of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jack-tanner/mindfulness-is-the-purest-mindlessness-it-is-the-great-and-perverse/)

[Jack Tanner](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jack-tanner/)

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> [“Listen, I’m not an intellectual—Fascism has no need of that. What is wanted is the deed. Theory derives from action. What our…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/philip-k-dick/listen-i-m-not-an-intellectual-fascism-has-no-need-of-that-what-is/)

[Philip K. Dick](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/philip-k-dick/)

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> [“There is a great superficiality in today's evangelical world. Many Bible-believing Christians share the contemporary case for self-gratification, emotionalism, and anti-intellectualism. Many…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/gene-edward-veith-jr/there-is-a-great-superficiality-in-today-s-evangelical-world-many/)

[Gene Edward Veith Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/gene-edward-veith-jr/)

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> [“Either you think about things and try to understand them or you reach for relatively empty soundbites and slogans which excuse you…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/james-o-brien/either-you-think-about-things-and-try-to-understand-them-or-you-reach/)

[James O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/james-o-brien/)

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> [“It is a new Declaration of Independence: No longer do we hold these truths to be self-evident, we hold all truths to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/tom-nichols/it-is-a-new-declaration-of-independence-no-longer-do-we-hold-these/)

[Tom Nichols](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/tom-nichols/)

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> [“As long as the acquisition of knowledge is rendered habitually repugnant, so long will there be a prevailing tendency to discontinue it…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/herbert-spencer/as-long-as-the-acquisition-of-knowledge-is-rendered-habitually/)

[Herbert Spencer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/herbert-spencer/)

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> [“Let us honestly state the facts. Our America has a bad name for superficialness. Great men, great nations have not been boasters…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/ralph-waldo-emerson/let-us-honestly-state-the-facts-our-america-has-a-bad-name-for/)

[Ralph Waldo Emerson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/ralph-waldo-emerson/)

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> [“No, the bigger problem is that we’re proud of not knowing things. Americans have reached a point where ignorance, especially of anything…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/thomas-m-nichols/no-the-bigger-problem-is-that-we-re-proud-of-not-knowing-things/)

[Thomas M. Nichols](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/thomas-m-nichols/)

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> [“There is no danger greater for the State than that of self-styled intellectuals. You would have been better off remaining illiterate. -…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/marilyn-hacker/there-is-no-danger-greater-for-the-state-than-that-of-self-styled/)

[Marilyn Hacker](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/marilyn-hacker/)

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> [“Ignorance is king. Many would not profit by his abdication. Many enrich themselves by means of his dark monarchy. They are his…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/walter-m-miller-jr/ignorance-is-king-many-would-not-profit-by-his-abdication-many-enrich-2/)

[Walter M. Miller Jr](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/walter-m-miller-jr/)

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                        "text": "“Sonnet 1106 When an expert doesn't know something, They say, \"I don't know\", without tricks. But an armchair intellectual knows it all, Tiktok and Insta are their clinics. An expert's worth remains the same, with or without Tiktok and Insta. Armchair intellectuals are here today gone tomorrow, with the tiniest algorithm change of social media. My work will continue, with or without social media. My work will continue, with or without internet. My work will continue, with or without electricity even, so will the work of every expert sapiens. Instant popularity vanishes just as instantly, Today you are relevant, tomorrow you are gone. Make a real contribution that isn't overshadowed by the next big tech revolution.”",
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                        "text": "“After the First World War, the man in charge of recruitment at the Colonial Office was Major Ralph Dolignon Furse, a decorated war hero, a keen rugby and cricket player and, crucially, holder of a poor third-class degree from Oxford. Furse's selection process was designed to eliminate anyone too smart: dependability was the thing most desired. The last thing anyone wanted was for men in the field to analyse what they were doing.”",
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                        "text": "“Mindfulness opposes judgment, conceptualization, words, language, reason, logic, knowledge, understanding, science, philosophy, mathematics, history, intellectualism, learning from the past and planning for the future. It reduces thoughtful humans to the state of thoughtless animals, prisoners of the ignorance of the moment, overwhelmed by primitive sense-certainty. And this is sold as a desirable state, something we should all aspire to!”",
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                        "text": "“I love your body 'cause I've lost my mind If you want someone to talk to, you're wasting your time If you want someone to share your life, you need someone who's alive And if every relationship is a two-way street, I have been screwing in the back whilst you drive I never said I was deep, but I am profoundly shallow My lack of knowledge is vast, and my horizons are narrow I never said I was big, I never said that I was clever And if you're waiting to find what's going on in my mind, you could be waiting forever Forever and ever I can dance you to the end of the night 'cause I'm afraid of the dark I have to confess: I'm out of my depth You're going over my head and straight through my heart Some girls like to play it dirty, some girls want to be your mum Me, I disrespected you whilst we were waiting for the taxi to come My morality is shabby, my behaviour unacceptable No, I'm not looking for a relationship, just a willing receptacle I never said I was... I never said I was... I never said I was... I never said I was deep, but I am profoundly shallow My lack of knowledge is vast, and my horizons are narrow Oh, yeah. I never said I was big, I never said that I was clever And if you're waiting to find what's going on in my mind, you could be waiting forever Forever and ever”",
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                        "text": "“The specific use of folks as an exclusionary and inclusionary signal, designed to make the speaker sound like one of the boys or girls, is symptomatic of a debasement of public speech inseparable from a more general erosion of American cultural standards. Casual, colloquial language also conveys an implicit denial of the seriousness of whatever issue is being debated: talking about folks going off to war is the equivalent of describing rape victims as girls (unless the victims are, in fact, little girls and not grown women). Look up any important presidential speech in the history of the United States before 1980, and you will find not one patronizing appeal to folks. Imagine: 'We here highly resolve that these folks shall not have died in vain; and that government of the folks, by the folks, for the folks, shall not perish from the earth.”",
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                        "text": "“Drilling without thinking has of course been Republican party policy since May 2008. With gas prices soaring to unprecedented heights, that's when the conservative leader Newt Gingrich unveiled the slogan 'Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less'—with an emphasis on the now. The wildly popular campaign was a cry against caution, against study, against measured action. In Gingrich's telling, drilling at home wherever the oil and gas might be—locked in Rocky Mountain shale, in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, and deep offshore—was a surefire way to lower the price at the pump, create jobs, and kick Arab ass all at once. In the face of this triple win, caring about the environment was for sissies: as senator Mitch McConnell put it, 'in Alabama and Mississippi and Louisiana and Texas, they think oil rigs are pretty'. By the time the infamous 'Drill Baby Drill' Republican national convention rolled around, the party base was in such a frenzy for US-made fossil fuels, they would have bored under the convention floor if someone had brought a big enough drill.”",
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                        "text": "“To those who suspect that intellect is a subversive force in society, it will not do to reply that intellect is really a safe, bland, and emollient thing. In a certain sense, the suspicious Tories and militant philistines are right: intellect is dangerous. Left free, there is nothing it will not reconsider, analyze, throw into question. \"Let us admit the case of the conservative,\" John Dewey once wrote. \"If we once start thinking no one can guarantee what will be the outcome, except that many objects, ends and institutions will be surely doomed. Every thinker puts some portion of an apparently stable world in peril, and no one can wholly predict what will emerge in its place.\" Further, there is no way of guaranteeing that an intellectual class will be discreet and restrained in the use of its influence; the only assurance that can be given to any community is that it will be far worse off if it denies the free uses of the power of intellect than if it permits them. To be sure, intellectuals, contrary to the fantasies of cultural vigilantes, are hardly ever subversive of a society as a whole. But intellect is always on the move against something: some oppression, fraud, illusion, dogma, or interest is constantly falling under the scrutiny of the intellectual class and becoming the object of exposure, indignation, or ridicule.”",
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                        "text": "“And I wonder, therefore, how James Atlas can have been so indulgent in his recent essay ‘The Changing World of New York Intellectuals.’ This rather shallow piece appeared in the New York Times magazine, and took us over the usual jumps. Gone are the days of Partisan Review , Delmore Schwartz, Dwight MacDonald etc etc. No longer the tempest of debate over Trotsky, The Waste Land , Orwell, blah, blah. Today the assimilation of the Jewish American, the rise of rents in midtown Manhattan, the erosion of Village life, yawn, yawn. The drift to the right, the rediscovery of patriotism, the gruesome maturity of the once iconoclastic Norman Podhoretz, okay, okay ! I have one question which Atlas in his much-ballyhooed article did not even discuss. The old gang may have had regrettable flirtations. Their political compromises, endlessly reviewed, may have exhibited naivety or self-regard. But much of that record is still educative, and the argument did take place under real pressure from anti-semitic and authoritarian enemies. Today, the alleged ‘neo-conservative’ movement around Jeane Kirkpatrick, Commentary and the New Criterion can be found in unforced alliance with openly obscurantist, fundamentalist and above all anti-intellectual forces. In the old days, there would at least have been a debate on the proprieties of such a united front, with many fine distinctions made and brave attitudes struck. As I write, nearness to power seems the only excuse, and the subject is changed as soon it is raised. I wait for the agonised, self-justifying neo-conservative essay about necessary and contingent alliances. Do I linger in vain?”",
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                        "text": "“The temporary alliance between the elite and the mob rested largely on this genuine delight with which the former watched the latter destroy respectability. This could be achieved when the German steel barons were forced to deal with and to receive socially Hitler's the housepainter and self-admitted former derelict, as it could be with the crude and vulgar forgeries perpetrated by the totalitarian movements in all fields of intellectual life, insofar as they gathered all the subterranean, nonrespectable elements of European history into one consistent picture. From this viewpoint it was rather gratifying to see that Bolshevism and Nazism began even to eliminate those sources of their own ideologies which had already won some recognition in academic or other official quarters. Not Marx's dialectical materialism, but the conspiracy of 300 families; not the pompous scientificality of Gobineau and Chamberlain, but the \" Protocols of the Elders of Zion \"; not the traceable influence of the Catholic Church and the role played by anti-clericalism in Latin countries, but the backstairs literature about the Jesuits and the Freemasons became the inspiration for the rewriters of history. The object of the most varied and variable constructions was always to reveal history as a joke, to demonstrate a sphere of secret influences of which the visible, traceable, and known historical reality was only the outward façade erected explicitly to fool the people. To this aversion of the intellectual elite for official historiography, to its conviction that history, which was a forgery anyway, might as well be the playground of crackpots, must be added the terrible, demoralizing fascination in the possibility that gigantic lies and monstrous falsehoods can eventually be established as unquestioned facts, that man may be free to change his own past at will, and that the difference between truth and falsehood may cease to be objective and become a mere matter of power and cleverness, of pressure and infinite repetition. Not Stalin’s and Hitler's skill in the art of lying but the fact that they were able to organize the masses into a collective unit to back up their lies with impressive magnificence, exerted the fascination. Simple forgeries from the viewpoint of scholarship appeared to receive the sanction of history itself when the whole marching reality of the movements stood behind them and pretended to draw from them the necessary inspiration for action.”",
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                        "text": "“Since the time of Voltaire and two-chamber Government, which is at bottom simply distrust and personal self-examination, and gives the popular mind that bad habit of being suspicious, the Church of France seems to have realised that books are its real enemies.”",
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                        "text": "“Mindfulness” is the purest mindlessness. It is the great and perverse desire to annihilate consciousness and exist in an eternal now of unthinking perception of nothing at all. It is the most nihilistic vision there has ever been. It is “nirvana” – absolute nothingness, the state of infinite anti-consciousness.”",
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