Status quo Quote by Frank Furedi

“Also, a large swath of our intellectual culture is loath to admit that there could be anything good about civilization, modernity, and Western society.”

— Steven Pinker

“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

There is a close connection between socio-political development, the struggle between social classes and the history of ideologies. In general, intellectual movements closely reflect…

— Kwame Nkrumah

“For they amount to this: that if we are to produce a society of educated people, fitted to preserve their intellectual freedom amid the…

— Dorothy L. Sayers

“OVER the past two hundred years the influence of intellectuals has grown steadily. Indeed, the rise of the secular intellectual has been a key…

— Paul Johnson

I think such an inquiry will reveal a rather different picture: namely, it will reveal a very strong tendency for the intellectuals who are…

— Noam Chomsky

“When civilization is strong and widespread enough, "culture" will appear and take care of itself.”

— John Lukacs

“All culture, whatever significance it may have, just as all education, civilization, development, is absolutely powerless to renew the inner man.”

— Herman Bavinck

“The young are often savvy in the cultural world but not so much the intellectual; the old the intellectual but not so much the…

— Criss Jami

I admit that the eyes of the intellectually and culturally lively tend to glaze over at the mere mention of sociology, often with ample…

— Richard Wall

“Every culture has its typical beliefs, norms and values, but these are in constant flux.”

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Culture does not exist autonomously; it is set always in the context of social relationships.”

— Robert A. Nisbet