Around the world Quote by Thomas Sowell

“My experience is that people who call themselves "The Intellectuals" understand theories, but they do not understand things. I have long been convinced that,…

— Booker T. Washington

I rejoice in a belief that intellectual light will spring up in the dark corners of the earth; that freedom of enquiry will produce…

— George Washington

When the train of history hits a curve, the intellectuals fall off.

— Karl Marx

I think such an inquiry will reveal a rather different picture: namely, it will reveal a very strong tendency for the intellectuals who are…

— Noam Chomsky

Without the institution of slavery, civilization would never have been achieved, for no one could ever have done anything intellectual if he had to…

— Jeff Cooper

“It may sound exaggerated to say that the clash of civilizations and cultures as what we're witnessing in Europe between muslims and christians is…

— Robin Sacredfire

Intellectual slavery, of whatever nature it may be, will always have as a natural result both political and social slavery.

— Mikhail Bakunin

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

“Intellectuals as a class are notoriously prone to fine-sounding theoretical schemes that lead to catastrophe, such as Social Darwinism, Marxism or indeed eugenics.”

— Nicholas Wade

“OVER the past two hundred years the influence of intellectuals has grown steadily. Indeed, the rise of the secular intellectual has been a key…

— Paul Johnson

Once slavery in America was not seen as radical. It became, instead, a revolutionary idea that slaves should be freed. When we have lived…

— Gerry Spence

In those days, slavery was not looked upon, even in Quaker Philadelphia, with the shudder and abhorrence one feels towards it now.

— John Sergeant Wise