(246 quotes found)
“Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions.”
John McCarthy
“Widespread intellectual and moral docility may be convenient for leaders in the short term, but it is suicidal for nations in the long term. One of the criteria for national leadership should therefore be a talent for understanding, encouraging, and making constructive use of vigorous criticism.”
Carl Sagan
“Intellectuals can tell themselves anything, sell themselves any bill of goods, which is why they were so often patsies for the ruling classes in nineteenth-century France and England, or twentieth-century Russia and America.”
Lillian Hellman
“In the U.S. you have to be a deviant or exist in dreary boredom. Make no mistake; all intellectuals are deviants in the U.S.”
William S. Burroughs
“John Connally's conversion to the GOP raised the intellectual level of both parties”
Frank Mankiewicz
“I think the average Jew is probably sharper intellectually than the average gentile, because for years and years he's had to live by his wits. Consequently, there has evolved a race of Jews who are more agile mentally than the rest of us.”
George Lincoln Rockwell
“'I think therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches”
Milan Kundera
“I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.”
Frank Lloyd Wright
“Any preoccupation with ideas of what is right or wrong in conduct shows an arrested intellectual development”
Oscar Wilde
“To do nothing at all is the most difficult thing in the world, the most difficult and the most intellectual”
