Certain Quote by Susan Sontag

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

Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears of political…

— Thomas Sowell

A vague uncritical idealism always lends itself to ridicule and too much of it might be a danger to mankind, leading it round in…

— Lin Yutang

“To those who suspect that intellect is a subversive force in society, it will not do to reply that intellect is really a safe,…

— Richard Hofstadter

A political philosophy (often called "political science" by practitioners who are not averse from verbal trickery) must deal with contemporary realities. If it does…

— Revilo P. Oliver

Politics is not a game for naive thinkers. You may go in as an idealist, but you certainly won't come out as one.

— Honeysuckle Weeks

Most educated people are not set up to listen or change their minds about politics, however sensible they are in other fields.

— Dominic Cummings

The displacement of the idea that facts and evidence matter by the idea that everything boils down to subjective interests and perspectives is -…

— Larry Laudan

“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

Politics is an act of faith; you have to show some kind of confidence in the intellectual and moral capacity of the public.

— George McGovern

One's political views and/or religious beliefs should not exist in an impenetrable and inviolable bubble wherein they are protected from criticism or scrutiny.

— Gad Saad

“Regardless of your political orientation, if you are reasonably intelligent, you should strongly resent being manipulated. Guileful scoundrels in business, government, and media smugly…

— Joseph Befumo