Quote by James Baldwin

“...the danger that American society as a whole will over-esteem intellect or assign it such a transcendent value as to displace other legitimate values…

— Richard Hofstadter

“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

“Yes, we have much to be seriously concerned about, much that needs to be corrected, improved, or dispensed with. But the vitality and creative…

— David McCullough

“Putting our effort into protecting rather than expanding our current worldview prevents our intellectual and emotional growth.”

— Robin DiAngelo

“For more than a half-century, anti-intellectualism has had a pretty good run in presidential politics. In fact, Republicans would never have gotten where they…

— Peter Beinart

“You American intellectuals—you want so desperately to feel besieged and persecuted!”

— Günter Grass

“Through an exaggerated reliance on the intellect we have come to view the imagination as a faculty not to be trusted or valued.”

— Sophie Cornish

Why get excited over this latest episode in the long, sad history of American anti-intellectualism? Let me suggest that, as patriotic Americans, we should…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“The mass of the educated spend their lives commenting lazily on the ideas of others. They engage their best energies in sadistic practices against…

— Elena Ferrante

“-- it's rapidly turning into an us versus them scenario. And it's all but assured that someone is going to fall into the mass…

— Emmanuel Goldstein

“It is, I think, an indisputable fact that Americans are, as Americans, the most self- conscious people in the world, and the most addicted…

— Henry James

“The more we're thrown into conflict with each other through engineered distrust, the less able we are to unite against those responsible.”

— DaShanne Stokes