“It is to be hoped you are not ‘intellectual,’ which is an unpardonable trait” — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
He's clever,' thought Ivan,' I must admit there are some smart people even among the intelligentsia — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia. — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“We once again see the painful reality of the spineless political intelligentsia” — Nilantha Ilangamuwa Copy Share Image
The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent. — Stanley Baldwin Copy Share Image
“the Great Vaccination — the vaccination against the stupidity of the intelligentsia.” — Álvaro de Campos Copy Share Image
The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality. — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
It's among the intelligentsia that we often find the glib compulsion to explain everything and to understand nothing. — Joost Meerloo Copy Share Image
“There's a huge battle going on today with so-called intelligentsia vs common sense, and common sense is losing.” — M.A. Bookout Copy Share Image
One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool. — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“It is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during 'God save the King'… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite — Ron Silver Copy Share Image
The prosperity and advancement of a nation depend upon its intelligentsia, and Muslim India is looking forward to her young generation and… — Muhammad Ali Jinnah Copy Share Image
“The power of the intelligentsia is demonstrated not only by their ability to create a general climate of opinion that strikes fear… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“(...) the interaction of Social Democratic ideals with the realities of Russian society lead to the creation of a new social type,… — Lars T. Lih Copy Share Image
“Evsei Slonim would have seen himself as a member of the intelligentsia, a classless class whose features Nabokov described as""the spirit of… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
“The Soviet “creative intelligentsia” - that is, people accustomed to thinking one thing, saying another and doing a third - is as… — Andrei Amalrik Copy Share Image
“Well, I guess [2001: A Space Odyssey] legitimized [science fiction], particularly for people who looked down on science fiction; you know, the… — Arthur C. Clarke Copy Share Image
Social and political issues in general seem to me fairly simple; the effort to obfuscate them in esoteric and generally vacuous theory… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
“I grew up in an atmosphere tinged with militarism, and afterwards I spent five boring years within the sound of bugles. To… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Over the years I have had much occasion to ponder this word, the intelligentsia . We are all very fond of including… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“In addition, of course, they would be taken to a bath and in the bath vestibule they would be ordered to leave… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
“Nor were the intellectuals of the 1920s a vanguard of a new outlook, as they themselves supposed, but the exhausted rearguard of… — Correlli Barnett Copy Share Image
The intelligentsia has disdained commerce throughout Western history. — Peter Saunders Copy Share Image
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