Social darwinism Quote by Nicholas Wade

“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

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

— Steve Merrick

“The mass of the educated spend their lives commenting lazily on the ideas of others. They engage their best energies in sadistic practices against…

— Elena Ferrante

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

— Dean Koontz

“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

They [intellectuals] coined most of the slogans that guided the butcheries of Bolshevism, Fascism, and Nazism. Intellectuals extolling the delights of murder, writers advocating…

— Ludwig von Mises

“Marxism, famously a cry of pain rather than a science, has had its poets, but so has every other major religious heresy.”

— Harold Bloom

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

“[...] intellectualism (as understood by Fascists) divocers thought from action, science from life, the brain from the heart, and theory from practice. It is…

— Giovanni Gentile

“Most modern intellectuals and scientists have hardly any interest in place, for they consider their theories to be applicable everywhere.”

— Alastair Bonnett

“Even the great thinkers of the Enlightenment, with their commitment to reason, failed to recognize the ways they stereotyped others.”

— Phyllis Goldstein

“The tragedy is that thinking men, so-called intellectuals, seem to threaten the electorate. We have in this country an anti-intellectual strain that scares the…

— Myrna Loy