Intelligentsia Quotes
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It was her chaos that made her beautiful.
— Atticus Poetry
A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality.
— Thomas Sowell
The last refuge of the intelligentsia: when life gets too difficult, go find something to read.
— Judith Flanders
Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia.
— W. Somerset Maugham
You cannot be a powerful and life-changing presence to some people without being a joke or an embarrassment to others.
— Mark Manson
Hatred of producers of wealth still flourishes and has become, in fact, the racism of the intelligentsia.
— George Gilder
The distance between the library and the bedroom is astronomical
— Arthur Koestler
He's clever,' thought Ivan,' I must admit there are some smart people even among the intelligentsia
— Mikhail Bulgakov
Sour grapes, the champagne of the intelligentsia.
— Gregory Benford
I promise you, Laurence, you piss them off enough, and they'll make sweet music with your bones.
— J.G. Cressey
The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses.
— Bobby Seale
Decision has greater virtue and force if taken after there has been eloquent dissent.
— John Kenneth Galbraith
You cannot mandate productivity, you must provide the tools to let people become their best.
— Steve Jobs
True charity is spontaneous and finds its own occasion; it is never the offspring of importunity, nor of emulation.
— Hosea Ballou
Video games are the comic books of our time ... It's a medium that gains no respect among the intelligentsia.
— Guillermo Del Toro
It's among the intelligentsia that we often find the glib compulsion to explain everything and to understand nothing.
— Joost Meerloo
We shall solve this problem, and afterwards Warsaw as the Capital and the pool of intelligentsia of that nation will be destroyed.
— Heinrich Himmler
Do you suppose the human race invented boredom to make the prospect of death more palatable?
— C.D. Payne
The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence.
— Nikolai A. Berdyaev
In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite.
— Ron Silver
the Great Vaccination - the vaccination against the stupidity of the intelligentsia.
— Alvaro De Campos
One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool.
— George Orwell
My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up.
— Alison Bechdel
On campuses, and when I speak to the younger intelligentsia, I am getting a hunger for the text - the authentic text for Jewish knowledge.
— Arthur Hertzberg
The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.
— Stanley Baldwin
Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider.
— Diane Abbott
When I have money, I invest in buying books. My personal development by reading these books is my greatest pleasure.
— Lailah Gifty Akita
The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.
— Ralph Nader
A difference of taste in jokes, is a great strain on the affections.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
To die quickly in one's eighth decade at the very top of one's powers is an enviable end, and not an occasion for mourning.
— Brendan Gill
When the Doors became huge, what nascent rock intelligentsia existed at the time adored them.
— Steve Erickson
We once again see the painful reality of the spineless political intelligentsia
— Nilantha Ilangamuwa