Leadership Quote by Stuart Rojstaczer

“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

“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

“We don't want genius in this country unless it is accompanied by respectability.”

— Wilkie Collins

“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

The majority must be persuaded by ideology that their government is good, wise and, at least, inevitable, and certainly better than other conceivable alternatives.…

— Murray Rothbard

“I want everybody to be smart. As smart as they can be. A world of ignorant people is too dangerous to live in.”

— Garson Kanin

“On the contrary, we have a very deep-seated distrust of real intellectual effort (probably because we suspect that it will destroy, as I hope…

— James Baldwin

“If a country is run by a leader very poor in intelligence and if this leader is supported by a majority very rich in…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

“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

“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

“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

“It is out of character for a country that prides itself on intellectual freedom to put the education of its young in the hands…

— David Kelley