Best Intellectuals Sayings
253 Intellectuals quotes by 197 unique authors
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Two polar groups: at one pole we have the literary intellectuals, at the other scientists, and as the most representative, the physical scientists. Between the…
— Carrie P Snow
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To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a…
— Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
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Things have changed very much, several times, since I grew up, and, like everyone in New York except the intellectuals, I have led several lives…
— Renata Adler
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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 his…
— Ricky Skaggs
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In stark contrast with the views of the Greek philosophers and with those of the rest of western intellectuals to the present day, Chinese Taoist…
— Unknown Author
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Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s
— Parker Stevenson
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There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe.
— George Orwell
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I know I've got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I've got a lifesaving certificate but I…
— Victoria Wood
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Anything other than free enterprise always means a society of compulsion and lower living standards, and any form of socialism strictly enforced means dictatorship and…
— Llewellyn Rockwell
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There has never been a humane communist regime. Marxism is inherently totalitarian. It recognizes no moral limits on the state. It’s the most convenient ideology…
— Joseph Sobran
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Intellectuals should never marry; they won't enjoy it; and besides, they should not reproduce themselves.
— Don Herold
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It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.
— Norman Tebbit
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We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching…
— Tahar Ben Jelloun
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Professional intellectuals are the voice of a culture and are, therefore, its leaders, its integrators and its bodyguards.
— Ayn Rand
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No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals
— Irving Kristol
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The first modern propaganda agency was the British Ministry of Information a century ago, which secretly defined its task as to direct the thought of…
— Noam Chomsky
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For artists and intellectuals today, what is most needed is to be clear about social responsibility, because that is what most people automatically give up.…
— Ai Weiwei
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A subject to which few intellectuals ever give a thought is the right to be a vagrant, the freedom to wander. Yet vagrancy is a…
— Isabelle Eberhardt
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We let 50,000 Jewish intellectuals get across the border. Just as I wanted Lebensraum for Germany, I thought Jews should have a Lebensraum for themselves--outside…
— Alfred Rosenberg
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Before the whole world, I accuse you, German intellectuals, you non-Nazis, as those truly guilty of all these Nazi crimes, all this lamentable breakdown of…
— Bronislaw Huberman
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A nation of intellectuals, a nation of thugs/Jesus is hate, a nation of Satan is love!
— Vinnie Paz
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Theology is in disrepute among most Western intellectuals. The word is taken to mean a passe form of religious thinking that embraces irrationality and dogmatism.…
— Rodney Stark
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Intellectuals ought to study the past not for the pleasure they find in so doing, but to derive lessons from it.
— Cheikh Anta Diop
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Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were…
— William Alexander
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The wealth of society is created by the workers, peasants and working intellectuals. If they take their destiny into their own hands, follow a Marxist-Leninist…
— Mao Zedong
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