Democracies have Quote by Isaac Asimov

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that…

— Isaac Asimov

There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread…

— Isaac Asimov

“Anti-intellectualism is itself a means of short-circuiting democracy, because a stable democracy in any culture relies on the public actually understanding the implications of…

— Thomas M. Nichols

“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there always has been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread…

— Thomas M. Nichols

I'm tired of ignorance held up as inspiration, where vicious anti-intellectualism is considered a positive trait, and where uninformed opinion is displayed as fact.

— Phil Plait

Anti-intellectualism is a disposition to discount the importance of truth and the life of the mind.

— Os Guinness

“In a country as profoundly anti-intellectual as ours it is predictable that our leaders will do whatever they can in order not to appear…

— Stuart Rojstaczer

The false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.

— Isaac Asimov

“Coming at us like this--in waves, massed and unbreachable--knowledge becomes symbolic of our disempowerment--becomes bad knowledge--so we deny it, riding its crest until it…

— Ruth Ozeki

“Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman," by which he meant that those at the top of the heap use intellectuals as…

— Anonymous

“Many of the people who campaign against established knowledge are otherwise adept and successful in their daily lives. In some ways, it is all…

— Thomas M. Nichols

“For the mainstream thrust of anti-intellectualism, as it stands today, characterizes thinking itself as an elitist activity.”

— Maggie Nelson