Able Quote by Karl Popper

You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

They [intellectuals] coined most of the slogans that guided the butcheries of Bolshevism, Fascism, and Nazism. Intellectuals extolling the delights of murder, writers advocating…

— Ludwig von Mises

Why? What is so wonderful about mass murder that nobody in the history of the world has ever fond any smarter solution to problems…

— Richard Bach

Whenever there is injustice, oppression, aggression, violence, it's standard for it to be supported by those we now call "intellectuals," but typically not by…

— Noam Chomsky

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

— Albert Einstein

We are all so to speak intellectuals about something.

— Randall Jarrell

I think we - the way to stop anything violent or anything wrong is by really just paying attention to your own circle. You…

— Schoolboy Q

Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been…

— Richard Hofstadter

“Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and interest in facts. Their critical habit of mind makes them resistant to the kind…

— Aldous Huxley

Most of intellectuals are false prophets, flatterers of the court. The real prophets are the exception and treated badly. How badly they're treated depends…

— Noam Chomsky

Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears of political…

— Thomas Sowell