Danger Quote by Susan Jacoby

The largest cultural menace in America is the conformity of the intellectual cliques which, in education as well as the arts, are out to…

— Anonymous

Americans are genuinely and profoundly anti-intellectual. They are especially so in their pleasure-seeking, which is epically banal.

— Jesse Ball

“Traditional American intellectuals are, in a sense, increasingly reactionary, and quite often proudly (and perversely) ignorant of many of the truly significant intellectual accomplishments…

— John Brockman

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

Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there…

— Douglas Sirk

Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have…

— Susan Sontag

The Americans are completely stupid. The intellectual level in any single European country is higher than in America.

— Michel Houellebecq

The American people...have a stake in non-conformity. For they know that the American genius is non-conformist.

— Henry Steele Commager

American life is a powerful solvent. It seems to neutralize every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it…

— George Santayana

If American society wants to invest in its young people, it has an obligation to provide them with an education in which they are…

— Henry Giroux

Americans thinking that America will continue to lead the world in innovation and quality of life without some quick and serious educational improvements are…

— Dean Kamen

“You American intellectuals—you want so desperately to feel besieged and persecuted!”

— Günter Grass