Accidents Quote by Allan Bloom

There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results.

— Will Self

Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears of political…

— Thomas Sowell

Whenever there is injustice, oppression, aggression, violence, it's standard for it to be supported by those we now call "intellectuals," but typically not by…

— Noam Chomsky

Intellectuals are real and actuals who speak first to bare open and bring fore the burning matters factual before others can speak up and…

— Anuj Somany

Many who have read Marxist books have become renegades from the revolution, whereas illiterate workers often grasp Marxism very well.

— Mao Zedong

Intellectuals are not defined according to the jobs they do, but by the manner in which they act, the way they see themselves, and…

— Frank Furedi

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.

— Gerald Brenan

“People are called intellectuals because they're privileged. It's not because they're smart or they know a lot. There are plenty of people who know…

— Noam Chomsky

Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.

— Aldous Huxley

The way in which a certain kind of political idealism has been discredited and scorned makes the danger not that intellectuals keep on making…

— Susan Sontag

“Intellectuals as a class are notoriously prone to fine-sounding theoretical schemes that lead to catastrophe, such as Social Darwinism, Marxism or indeed eugenics.”

— Nicholas Wade

Intellectuals range through the finest gradations of kind and quality: from those who are merely educated neurotics, usually with strong hidden reactionary tendencies, through…

— Louise Bogan