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Writing recently in the New York Times, David Brooks noted correctly if belatedly that conservatives disdain for liberal intellectuals had slipped into disdain for the… — Mark Lilla
There was a time when conservative intellectuals raised the level of American public debate and helped to keep it sober. Those days are gone. As… — Mark Lilla
Why do I think that we, the intellectuals, are able to help? Simply because we, the intellectuals, have done the most terrible harm for thousands… — Karl Popper
I always seem to be cast as slightly wan, ethereal, troubled intellectuals or physically ambivalent bad lovers. But I'm here to tell you I'm quite… — Benedict Cumberbatch
I think a major reason why intellectuals tend to move towards collectivism is that the collectivist answer is a simple one. If there's something wrong,… — Milton Friedman
The argument for collectivism is simple if false; it is an immediate emotional argument. The argument for individualism is subtle and sophisticated; it is an… — Milton Friedman
If you explore beneath shyness or party chit-chat, you can sometimes turn a dull exchange into an intriguing one. I've found this to be particularly… — Joyce Carol Oates
In this country, unfortunately, as all over the world, we care so little, we have no deep feeling about anything. Most of us are intellectual-intellectuals… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Today's dissenters mainly focus their attention and expend their energies on the most inconsequential of trivia. ...Allegedly serious intellectuals quibble endlessly over such ridiculous trivialities...In… — J. Paul Getty
Film criticism became the means whereby a stream of young intellectuals could go straight from the campus film society into the professionals' screening room without… — Judith Crist
In the final analysis, national struggle is a matter of class struggle. Among the whites in the United States, it is only the reactionary ruling… — Mao Zedong
It will take a long period to decide the issue in the ideological struggle between socialism and capitalism in our country. The reason is that… — Mao Zedong
Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has… — Edward Said
The more profound problem, however, is the degree to which many academic intellectuals, especially in the humanities, have lost their ability to distinguish the 'state'… — Stephen D. Cox
The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works. — Jacques Barzun
When the train of history hits a curve, the intellectuals fall off. — Karl Marx
Wisdom is the most-sought intellectual degree whose subjects are regularly learned throughout life with an open mind in an open university called life and taught… — Anuj
Well, the capacity of French intellectuals to understand a Texan way of thinking is finite. — Henry A. Kissinger
You're a genius! And the proof is that both common people and intellectuals find your work completely incoherent. — Woody Allen
Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations. — Aldous Huxley
The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped. — George Orwell
England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. — George Orwell
The best revenge you can have on intellectuals is to be madly happy. — Albert Camus
The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most spectacular achievements ever recorded in the economic history of mankind.… — Ayn Rand
Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in 19th-century… — Lillian Hellman

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