American politics Quote by Myrna Loy

“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

“How can one absolve intelligent men for engaging in arrogant and demented folly?”

— C R Strahan

“I think academics and intellectuals are the natural enemies of imagination and intelligence.”

— Steve Merrick

“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

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

— Gary Gutting

“If nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come, nothing is more harmful than an idea which is manipulated by motivated…

— Mohammad Badrul Ahsan

It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been…

— Richard Hofstadter

“The intellectual forces of the workers and peasants are growing and getting stronger in their fight to overthrow the bourgeoisie and their accomplices, the…

— Vladimir Lenin

“Intelligence is a capacity so godlike, so protean that it must be contained and disciplined. This is the work of politics—understood as the ordering…

— Charles Krauthammer

“The fatal conceit of intellectuals, he said, is to think that smart people can design an economy or a society better than the apparently…

— David Boaz

“Being an intellectual among intellectuals means nothing. There must be more.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

“While intellect might make a man ingenious, it is passion that keeps genius on its feet.”

— Craig D. Lounsbrough