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Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral. — Henry A. Kissinger

No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals — Irving Kristol

Revolutionary intellectuals have the historic mission of inventing the vocabulary and the themes for the next tyranny. — Nicolas Gomez Davila

The common people, on the whole, are still living in the world of absolute good and evil from which the intellectuals have long since escaped. — George Orwell

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

I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry. — Randall Jarrell

States have always needed intellectuals to con the public into believing that its rule is wise, good, and inevitable — Murray Rothbard

Intellectuals are people who go to study things other people do naturally. — Bill Cosby

As things stand the "intellectuals" only come out to lick the bones left over by the tyrant. — Nilantha Ilangamuwa

There are clearly many Egyptian free-thinkers and intellectuals - lots of wonderful Egyptian artists and architects and scientists. — Richard Engel

We are all so to speak intellectuals about something. — Randall Jarrell

Certainly the party counts a considerable number of intellectuals among its members, but I am by no means disposed to apologise for that. — Harry Oppenheimer

There are some ideas so stupid that only intellectuals can believe in them, particularly left-wing intellectuals. — Poul Anderson

(I've had a hard time conveying to intellectuals the intellectual superiority of practice.) — Nassim Nicholas Taleb

intellectuals are typically privileged; privilege yields opportunity, and opportunity confers responsibilities. An individual then has choices. — Noam Chomsky

Among intellectuals who consider themselves 'scientific,' the phrase 'the nature of man' is apt to have the effect of a red flag on a bull. — Murray Rothbard

Good politicians need not be intellectuals, but they should have intellectual lives. — Gary Gutting

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework. — Sara Paretsky

Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who "speak truth to power" but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power. — Thomas Sowell

Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed. — Manuel Puig

Public intellectuals are often put in the position of having their words, no matter how off-the-cuff, treated as doctrine. — Roxane Gay

I think Black intellectuals see too deeply. That's the problem. It's a cause of anxiety, because we see things differently. — Ishmael Reed

Let's face it, most of us are not half as smart as we may sometimes think we are
and for intellectuals, not one-tenth as smart. — Thomas Sowell

The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests. — Noam Chomsky

Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics. — Steven Pinker

A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted at will. — Eric Hoffer

Americans on the average do not trust intellectuals, but they are cowed by power and stunned by celebrity. — Viet Thanh Nguyen

Because in the civilization of the spectacle, intellectuals are of interest only if they play the fashion game and become clowns. — Mario Vargas-Llosa

Professional intellectuals are the voice of a culture and are, therefore, its leaders, its integrators and its bodyguards. — Ayn Rand

It is the responsibility of intellectuals to speak the truth and expose lies. — Noam Chomsky

It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism. — Norman Tebbit

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way — Marcel Proust

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good — Ezra Pound

Journalists are usually quite jealous people, especially of intellectuals who are supposed to be in fashion. — Vivienne Westwood

If but a small part of Mme. Curie's strength of character and devotion were alive in Europe's intellectuals, Europe would face a brighter future. — Albert Einstein

I like being surrounded by students and intellectuals. — Louis Garrel

Intellectuals suck, Nathan. They are the most boring people in the world. — Paul Auster

The People's' historic duty was to become a nameless herd and submit to the absolute control of a small pack of wily and vicious intellectuals. — Charles Portis

Music has a role, fashion has a role, cinema has a role, intellectuals have a role, parliamentarians, politicians, diplomats
all of it. — Riyad Mansour

In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and pretentiousness is a crime. — Karl Popper

Intellectuals are good at seeing the big picture. But they are not so good at process. — Michael Ignatieff

Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man. — Christopher Hitchens

My favourite definition of an intellectual: 'Someone who has been educated beyond his/her intelligence.
[Sources and Acknowledgements: Chapter 19] — Arthur C. Clarke

We build cars, not intellectuals — Jeffrey K. Liker

Intellect is not wisdom. — Thomas Sowell

He was born to be alone, a damned cold intellectual, an egoist. — Ursula K. Le Guin

I believe that everybody has the right to view his or her own body as a palette. However, I think intellectuals should at least try to be role models. — Camille Paglia

Zealots are one-trick ponies. They love nothing so much as their own cause. Don't get in their way without expecting to be hurt. — Patricia Briggs

Intellectuals have opinions on subjects they just heard about five minutes ago. — Mason Cooley

I allowed myself to be taken in by the intellectuals. I believed too much in the Polish intellectuals and followed their advice. — Lech Walesa

There is an interior style we intellectuals and design policy wonks know as Haut Euro Pooftastic, which really takes the biscuit. — Peter York

Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s. — Parker Stevenson

Beekeeping is farming for intellectuals. — Sue Hubbell

We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense. — Samuel Fuller

The so-called intellectuals don't like my films. — Rohit Shetty

I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up. — Frank Lloyd Wright

A wise man's goal shouldn't be to say something profound, but to say something useful. — Criss Jami

Trotsky was so much an intellectual that in the final analysis, Marxism was not quite enough for him. — Christopher Hitchens

Real intellectuals like to escape once in a while from their world of intellect. — Desi Arnaz

I've seen what rational thought leads to. Dumbest people I ever met were intellectuals. — Robert Ferrigno

Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate. — Caitlin Moran

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you. — Theodor Adorno

England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality. — George Orwell

Intellectuals are too sentimental for me. — Margaret Anderson

I think that intellectuals who end up in hell will have to read page proofs and check indexes there. — Edward Teller

Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God. — Thomas Sowell

All men are intellectuals, but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals — Antonio Gramsci

Revolution is glorified by intellectuals, apotheosized by poets, sanctified by visionaries, and bled white by politicians. — Ameen Rihani

Thank God I am not an intellectual! What a garbage of knowledge, what an unnecessary glossary of terms they have, those intellectuals! — Mehmet Murat Ildan

After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country. — Hu Shih

Indeed, a convent was a kind of early think tank for women, since it was the preferred choice of intellectuals wanting to escape marriage. — Magnus Flyte

Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender of personality. — Harold Nicolson

Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise. — Jonathan Sacks

The job of intellectuals is to come up with ideas, and all we've been producing is footnotes. — Theodore White

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works. — Jacques Barzun

But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad. — Ellen Glasgow

Sometimes the truth is too simple for intellectuals. — Jean-Paul Sartre

Even in the most favourable periods for cultural development , Intellectuals tend to have uneasy relationship with the status quo. — Frank Furedi

Like most intellectuals he is intensely stupid. — Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos

There are some things only intellectuals are crazy enough to believe. — George Orwell

It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum. — Sam Harris

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them. — Albert Einstein

Ideas are not intellectuals' toys: ideas have consequences, for good and for ill, in what even intellectuals sometimes call "the real world". — George Weigel

Intellectuals are rebels, not revolutionaries. — Cesar Vallejo

A society without intellectuals is like a body without a head — Ayn Rand

Intellectuals should never marry; they won't enjoy it; and besides, they should not reproduce themselves. — Don Herold

Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme. — Raymond Aron

The first socialists were the intellectuals; they, and not the masses, are the backbone of Socialism. — Ludwig Von Mises

The same group of New York pseudo-intellectuals who've put down prayer are the same ones who put down L.A. — Marianne Williamson

It is evident that the State needs the intellectuals; it is not so evident why intellectuals need the State. — Murray N. Rothbard

Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them. — George Orwell

Not even anthropologists or intellectuals, no matter how many books they have, can find out all our secrets. — Rigoberta Menchu

The difference between western and eastern intellectuals is that the former have not been kicked in the ass enough. — Witold Gombrowicz

Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals. — Abdolkarim Soroush

Make sure you work at a place which gives you opportunities to learn, travel, explore, interact with intellectuals and new work skills. — Abhishek Ratna

The best revenge you can have on intellectuals is to be madly happy. — Albert Camus

Unrecognized alcoholism is the ruling pathology among writers and intellectuals. — Diana Trilling

Being an intellectual among intellectuals means nothing. There must be more. — Darnell Lamont Walker

Nothing appeals to intellectuals more than the feeling that they represent 'the people'. Nothing, as a rule, is further from the truth — Paul Johnson

Poets and intellectuals ... are the ones the tyrants go after first. — Frederick Smock