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Intellectuals Quotes

The passion with which native intellectuals defend the existence of their national culture may be a source of amazement; but those who condemn this exaggerated passion are strangely apt to forget that their own psyche and their own selves are conveniently sheltered behind a French or German culture which has given full proof of its existence and which is uncontested Picture Quote #1

Friendship... Is essential to intellectuals. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk Picture Quote #1

The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most spectacular achievements ever recorded in the economic history of mankind. What reward did they receive from our culture and its intellectuals? The position of a hated, persecuted minority. The position of a scapegoat for the evils of the bureaucrats Picture Quote #1

It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero sum Picture Quote #1

The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half Picture Quote #1

My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind Picture Quote #1

Nine days after an attack on the United States, this tiny clique of intellectuals was telling the President of the United States... That if he did not follow their war plans, he would be charged publicly with a decisive surrender to terrorism Picture Quote #1

As a child I wanted to be a grown-up. I wanted to know everything - not that I like to talk about it. I hate intellectual conversation with intellectuals because I only care about my opinion Picture Quote #1

Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price Picture Quote #1

There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results Picture Quote #1

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My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework Picture Quote #1

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people’s values Picture Quote #1

Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don’t look at it as an art form. They think it’s just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life Picture Quote #1

It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism Picture Quote #1

I know I’ve got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I’ve got a lifesaving certificate but I don’t spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on Picture Quote #1

If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it is the great delusion of intellectuals to suppose that all previous ages were less sick Picture Quote #1

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The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work Picture Quote #1

Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender of personality Picture Quote #1

Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of truth or falsity, if only because banalities are by definition accurate Picture Quote #1

I started to wonder, and felt relieved that there might be truth to the idea of intellectuals all being frauds. I knew that I certainly was Picture Quote #1

It is one of the great ironies of corporate control that the corporate state needs the abilities of intellectuals to maintain power, yet outside of this role it refuses to permit intellectuals to think or function independently Picture Quote #1

Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs Picture Quote #1

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Anything other than free enterprise always means a society of compulsion and lower living standards, and any form of socialism strictly enforced means dictatorship and the total state. That this statement is still widely disputed only illustrates the degree to which malignant fantasy can capture the imagination of intellectuals Picture Quote #1

There has never been a humane communist regime. Marxism is inherently totalitarian. It recognizes no moral limits on the state. It’s the most convenient ideology for aspiring tyrants; it also retains its appeal for intellectuals, who have proved equally skillful at rationalizing abuses of power and at exculpating themselves Picture Quote #1

Intellectuals should never marry; they won’t enjoy it; and besides, they should not reproduce themselves Picture Quote #1

Intellectuals ought to study the past not for the pleasure they find in so doing, but to derive lessons from it Picture Quote #1

Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort. And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires Picture Quote #1

I think that those of us who are what are called intellectuals make a terrible mistake in overvaluing the yen we have for the arts, books, etc. There is a sweet, fine quality in life that has nothing to do with this, and more and more I find myself valuing myself with those people Picture Quote #1

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The passion with which native intellectuals defend the existence of their national culture may be a source of amazement; but those who condemn this exaggerated passion are strangely apt to forget that their own psyche and their own selves are conveniently sheltered behind a French or German culture which has given full proof of its existence and which is uncontested (Intellectuals Quotes) Friendship... Is essential to intellectuals. You can date the evolving life of a mind, like the age of a tree, by the rings of friendship formed by the expanding central trunk (Intellectuals Quotes) The American businessmen, as a class, have demonstrated the greatest productive genius and the most spectacular achievements ever recorded in the economic history of mankind. What reward did they receive from our culture and its intellectuals? The position of a hated, persecuted minority. The position of a scapegoat for the evils of the bureaucrats (Intellectuals Quotes) It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero sum (Intellectuals Quotes) The ratio between supervisory and producing personnel is always highest where the intellectuals are in power. In a Communist country it takes half the population to supervise the other half (Intellectuals Quotes) My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace (Intellectuals Quotes) 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 (Intellectuals Quotes) I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind (Intellectuals Quotes) Nine days after an attack on the United States, this tiny clique of intellectuals was telling the President of the United States... That if he did not follow their war plans, he would be charged publicly with a decisive surrender to terrorism (Intellectuals Quotes) As a child I wanted to be a grown-up. I wanted to know everything - not that I like to talk about it. I hate intellectual conversation with intellectuals because I only care about my opinion (Intellectuals Quotes) Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price (Intellectuals Quotes) There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results (Intellectuals Quotes) My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework (Intellectuals Quotes) Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people’s values (Intellectuals Quotes) Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don’t look at it as an art form. They think it’s just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life (Intellectuals Quotes) It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism (Intellectuals Quotes) I know I’ve got a degree. Why does that mean I have to spend my life with intellectuals? I’ve got a lifesaving certificate but I don’t spend my evenings diving for a rubber brick with my pyjamas on (Intellectuals Quotes) If it is the great delusion of moralists to suppose that all previous ages were less sinful than their own, then it is the great delusion of intellectuals to suppose that all previous ages were less sick (Intellectuals Quotes) The closest thing we have to the traditional ideology of the leisure class is a group of artists and intellectuals who regard their work as play and their play as work (Intellectuals Quotes) Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender of personality (Intellectuals Quotes) Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of truth or falsity, if only because banalities are by definition accurate (Intellectuals Quotes) I started to wonder, and felt relieved that there might be truth to the idea of intellectuals all being frauds. I knew that I certainly was (Intellectuals Quotes) It is one of the great ironies of corporate control that the corporate state needs the abilities of intellectuals to maintain power, yet outside of this role it refuses to permit intellectuals to think or function independently (Intellectuals Quotes) Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs (Intellectuals Quotes) Anything other than free enterprise always means a society of compulsion and lower living standards, and any form of socialism strictly enforced means dictatorship and the total state. That this statement is still widely disputed only illustrates the degree to which malignant fantasy can capture the imagination of intellectuals (Intellectuals Quotes) There has never been a humane communist regime. Marxism is inherently totalitarian. It recognizes no moral limits on the state. It’s the most convenient ideology for aspiring tyrants; it also retains its appeal for intellectuals, who have proved equally skillful at rationalizing abuses of power and at exculpating themselves (Intellectuals Quotes) Intellectuals should never marry; they won’t enjoy it; and besides, they should not reproduce themselves (Intellectuals Quotes) Intellectuals ought to study the past not for the pleasure they find in so doing, but to derive lessons from it (Intellectuals Quotes) Every single empire in its official discourse has said that it is not like all the others, that its circumstances are special, that it has a mission to enlighten, civilize, bring order and democracy, and that it uses force only as a last resort. And, sadder still, there always is a chorus of willing intellectuals to say calming words about benign or altruistic empires (Intellectuals Quotes) I think that those of us who are what are called intellectuals make a terrible mistake in overvaluing the yen we have for the arts, books, etc. There is a sweet, fine quality in life that has nothing to do with this, and more and more I find myself valuing myself with those people (Intellectuals Quotes)

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