Atheists Quote by Martha Nussbaum

The great philosophers of the past who wrote so beautifully - Rousseau, John Stuart Mill - had to write beautifully because they had to…

— Martha C. Nussbaum

It's interesting to note that all revolutionary literature was written by pastors. These guys were involved in a revolution against the mightiest power that…

— Randall Terry

Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have…

— Susan Sontag

Leftism has influenced the literary, academic, media, and, therefore, the political elite far more than any other religion. It has taken over Western schools…

— Dennis Prager

“So many revolutionaries are intellectuals, a class of people whose aspirations tend to run ahead of their capabilities. Just”

— William T. Vollmann

Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they are just good enough to be assassins.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“My experience is that people who call themselves "The Intellectuals" understand theories, but they do not understand things. I have long been convinced that,…

— Booker T. Washington

In the 1970s, many intellectuals had become political radicals. Marxism was correct, liberalism was for wimps, and Marx had pronounced that 'the ruling ideas…

— Steven Pinker

“Second, some common interpretations of our shared past are badly in need of correction. Secular liberals who claim that the United States was built…

— Philip S Gorski

“Intellectuals are rebels, not revolutionaries.”

— César Vallejo

Intellectuals of the categories happen to enjoy unusual privilege, unique in history, I suppose. It's easy enough to find ugly illustrations of repression, malice,…

— Noam Chomsky

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