Intellectuals Quotes

253 Intellectuals quotes by 197 unique authors

'Capitalism' is a dirty word for many intellectuals, but there are a number of studies showing that open economies and free trade are negatively correlated… — Steven Pinker
I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of… — Steven Pinker
In the 1970s, many intellectuals had become political radicals. Marxism was correct, liberalism was for wimps, and Marx had pronounced that 'the ruling ideas of… — Steven Pinker
Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed. — Manuel Puig
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way. — Marcel Proust
Every White House has had its intellectuals, but very few presidents have been intellectuals themselves - Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Woodrow Wilson, the list more… — Jonathan Raban
Out-of-step intellectuals like Noam Chomsky and the deceased Edward Said have often been dismissed as crazy extremists, 'anti-American,' and in Mr. Said's case even, absurdly,… — Salman Rushdie
Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise. — Jonathan Sacks
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
What the British seem to like are television historians and naturalists, not public intellectuals. You can't help feeling that's because one supplies narrative and the… — Will Self
Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals. — Abdolkarim Soroush
Socialism in general has a record of failure so blatant that only an intellectual could ignore or evade it. — Thomas Sowell
To be wholly devoted to some intellectual exercise is to have succeeded in life. — Robert Louis Stevenson
It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection. — Antonio Tabucchi
My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age,… — Alvin Toffler
I allowed myself to be taken in by the intellectuals. I believed too much in the Polish intellectuals and followed their advice. — Lech Walesa
Journalists are usually quite jealous people, especially of intellectuals who are supposed to be in fashion. — Vivienne Westwood
Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals. — Edmund Wilson
I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed; but to also… — Michael Eric Dyson
The course of every intellectual, if he pursues his journey long and unflinchingly enough, ends in the obvious, from which the non-intellectuals have never stirred. — Aldous Huxley
In those days he really didn't know what he was talking about; that is to say, he was a young jailkid all hung-up on the… — Jack Kerouac
They [intellectuals] coined most of the slogans that guided the butcheries of Bolshevism, Fascism, and Nazism. Intellectuals extolling the delights of murder, writers advocating censorship,… — Ludwig von Mises
Few people...have had much training in listening. The training of most oververbalized professional intellectuals is in the opposite direction. Living in a competitive culture, most… — S I Hayakawa
It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies. — Noam Chomsky
You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them. — Napoleon Bonaparte

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