Campaigns Quote by Larry Laudan

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

— Os Guinness

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

— Maggie Nelson

“I did not write this work merely with the aim of setting the exegetical record straight. My larger target is those contemporaries who --…

— Larry Laudan

The political left, which holds itself as progressive, rational and fact-based, is becoming an enemy of academic inquiry, and a practitioner of thought control…

— David Limbaugh

“When you enter the realm of politics and ideology, the distinction between opinion and fact starts to cloud, and the stakes become dauntingly high;…

— Michael Hirschorn

“Let no one misunderstand our idea; we do not confound what are called 'political opinions' with that grand aspiration after progress with that sublime…

— Victor Hugo

ANYONE who studies the history of ideas should notice how much more often people on the political left, more so than others, denigrate and…

— Thomas Sowell

The way in which a certain kind of political idealism has been discredited and scorned makes the danger not that intellectuals keep on making…

— Susan Sontag

“It's easy to let your biases—political, intellectual, or otherwise—color your view of the world. A growing body of research suggests that even the smartest…

— Steven D. Levitt

Being able to provoke a different point of view to the standard current ideological or political perspective as played out in conventional newspaper or…

— Susie Orbach

We begin to inhabit oppositional and rarely intersecting mental universes having to do with ideology and fact and non-fact and news and non-news.

— David Remnick

Richard Hofstadter, in his famous book which was written in the time of the McCarthy period in the 1950 and 1960s, Anti-intellectualism in American…

— Joan Wallach Scott