About Quote by Michael Eric Dyson

“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

“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

“Not taking off his dark overcoat, lending him quite a hulking gangster look, pacing in front of the CIA’s wall of stars for its…

— Michael Wolff

O.K., if the desire to knock America off its pedestal, to redistribute American income to other countries, to shrink America's footprint in the world,…

— Dinesh D'Souza

I think there is a disrespect for the mind that Trump, for example, exemplifies. His is a kind of strategic thinking that's more about…

— Joan Wallach Scott

Bush, himself the most intellectually backward American president of my political lifetime, is surrounded by advisers whose bellicosity is exceeded only by their political,…

— Gerald Kaufman

The thing which Reagan did, which was great, was he won the people. He marginalized the media. And that's what you need, an intellectual…

— Greg Gutfeld

“An intellectual is usually someone who isn't exactly distinguished by his intellect. He claims that label to compensate for his inadequacies. It's as old…

— Carlos Ruiz Zafón

“Since at least the year 2000 and the election of George Bush, Americans have shown themselves to be increasingly enamored with the heroic couplet…

— J. Jack Halberstam

George W. Bush is a person who is totally disinterested in the world, uneducated. I'm not saying he's stupid. I don't think he's stupid.…

— Robert Scheer

When I wrote that [Donald] Trump piece, I had this uncomfortable experience of sensing a lot of things that were nascent, that I couldn't…

— George Saunders

It only takes a day to change someone from an anti-intellectual to an intellectual by persuading him that he might be one!

— Edwin Land