Better Quote by Murray Rothbard

“For this essential acceptance, the majority must be persuaded by ideology that their government is good, wise and, at least, inevitable, and certainly better…

— Murray N. Rothbard

States have always needed intellectuals to con the public into believing that its rule is wise, good, and inevitable

— Murray Rothbard

Good politicians need not be intellectuals, but they should have intellectual lives.

— Gary Gutting

“In a country as profoundly anti-intellectual as ours it is predictable that our leaders will do whatever they can in order not to appear…

— Stuart Rojstaczer

“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

There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results.

— Will Self

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

Intellectuals are not defined according to the jobs they do, but by the manner in which they act, the way they see themselves, and…

— Frank Furedi

“Anti-intellectualism is itself a means of short-circuiting democracy, because a stable democracy in any culture relies on the public actually understanding the implications of…

— Thomas M. Nichols

Intellectuals are good at seeing the big picture. But they are not so good at process.

— Michael Ignatieff

Intellectuals are people who manage the world in their head. They look at life and try to see some kind of truth, and if…

— Yair Lapid

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.

— Gerald Brenan