Achievement Quote by Ludwig von Mises

“Intellectuals are a pretty unique species all by themselves, given to advocating things out of sheer brazenness that they could not themselves stomach if…

— Matthew Scully

“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

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.

— Jacques Barzun

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

Intellectuals advertise their superiority to political practice but are absolutely in its thrall. It is no accident that Marxist theory and practice use the…

— Allan Bloom

Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations.

— Aldous Huxley

There was a time when intellectual meant someone who uses reason and intellect. Today, people who call themselves intellectuals are in a form of…

— Bill Whittle

“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

“Self-identified intellectuals were among the most dangerous people on the planet.”

— Dean Koontz

“The process which, if not checked, will abolish Man goes on apace among Communists and Democrats no less than among Fascists. The methods may…

— C.S. Lewis

“The culture-heroes of our liberal bourgeois civilisation are anti-liberal and anti-bourgeois; they are writers who are repetitive, obsessive, and impolite, who impress by force…

— Susan Sontag

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