Quotes with intellectuals

  • Two polar groups: at one pole we have the literary intellectuals, at the other scientists, and as the most representative, the physical scientists. Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension.

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  • Camille Paglia Capitalism is an art form, an Apollonian fabrication to rival nature. It is hypocritical for feminists and intellectuals to enjoy the pleasures and conveniences of capitalism while sneering at it. Everyone born into capitalism has incurred a debt to it. Give Caesar his due.
    Camille Paglia
    American academic and social critic (1947 - )
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  • Clare Boothe Luce Communism is the opiate of the intellectuals [With] no cure except as a guillotine might be called a cure for dandruff.
    Clare Boothe Luce
    American diplomat and writer (1903 - 1987)
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  • Brendan Myers Complex astronomical instruments like the Antikythera Mechanism and the Nebra Sky Disk were made by Pagans. Our Pagan intellectual heritage includes poets and scientists and literary intellectuals of every kind, especially including those who wrote some of the most important and influential books in all of Western history.
    Brendan Myers
    Canadian philosopher and author (1974 - )
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  • George Orwell England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Abdolkarim Soroush 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
    Iranian Islamic thinker and reformer (1945 - )
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  • Brad Holland Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it.
    Brad Holland
    American basketball player (1956 - )
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  • Frank Lloyd Wright I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.
    Frank Lloyd Wright
    American architect (1867 - 1959)
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  • Lillian Hellman 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
    American playwright (1905 - 1984)
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  • Albert Einstein Intellectuals solve problems; geniuses prevent them.
    Albert Einstein
    German - American physicist (1879 - 1955)
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  • Bill Alexander Intellectuals, academics, writers and poets were an important force in the early groups of volunteers. They had the means to get to Spain and were accustomed to travelling, whereas very few workers had left British shores.
    Bill Alexander
    German painter, art instructor, and television host (1915 - 1997)
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  • Norman Tebbit 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
    British politician (1931 - )
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  • Antonio Tabucchi It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.
    Antonio Tabucchi
    Italian writer and academic (1943 - )
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  • Marquise de Merteuil Like most intellectuals, he is immensely stupid.
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  • Brad Holland Many people have observed that truth is stranger than fiction. This has led some intellectuals to conclude that it's stranger than non-fiction as well.
    Brad Holland
    American basketball player (1956 - )
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  • E. Glasgow Only morons would ever think of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.
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  • Caitlin Moran Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.
    Caitlin Moran
    English journalist, author, and broadcaster (1975 - )
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  • George Orwell 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
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • Barbara Grizzuti Harrison To offer the complexities of life as an excuse for not addressing oneself to the simpler, more manageable (trivial) aspects of daily existence is a perversity often indulged in by artists, husbands, intellectuals - and critics of the Women's Movement.
    Barbara Grizzuti Harrison
    American journalist, essayist and memoirist (1934 - 2002)
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  • C. P. Snow Two polar groups: at one pole we have the literary intellectuals, at the other scientists, and as the most representative, the physical scientists. Between the two a gulf of mutual incomprehension.
    The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution (1959)
    C. P. Snow
    English novelist (1905 - 1980)
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  • Aldous Huxley Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.
    Aldous Huxley
    English writer (1894 - 1963)
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