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Letter "I" » intellectuals
«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.»
«Communism was the brain-child of German-Jewish intellectuals»
«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»
«It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.»
Author: Richard Hofstadter
| About:
Intelligence
| Keywords:
for the most part, intellectuals, ironic, outsider, outsiders, Political history, scapegoat, scapegoats
«A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.»
Author: Spiro T. Agnew
(Vice President)
| Keywords:
characterize, corps, effete, encouraged, impudent, intellectuals, prevails, snobs
«Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals with no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.»
Author: Clare Boothe Luce
(Diplomat, Playwright)
| About:
Communism
| Keywords:
communism, dandruff, guillotine, intellectuals, opiate, opiates
«Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way»
«I had supposed until that time that it was quite common for parents to love their children, but the war persuaded me that it is a rare exception. I had supposed that most people liked money better than almost anything else, but I discovered that they liked destruction even better. I had supposed that intellectuals frequently loved truth, but I found here again that not ten per cent of them prefer truth to popularity.»
Author: Bertrand Russell
(Logician, Philosopher)
| Keywords:
cent, exception, intellectuals, PER, persuaded, per cent, popularity
«Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.»
Author: Albert Einstein
(Physicist)
| Keywords:
geniuses, intellectuals, prevent, problems, problem solving, solve, solve problems
«I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.»
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