We are all—so to speak—intellectuals about something.
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“The Intellectual in America”, p. 11Randall Jarrell
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Why do I think that we, the intellectuals, are able to help? Simply because we, the intellectuals, have done the most terrible harm for thousands of years. Mass murder in the name of an idea, a doctrine, a theory, a religion — that is all our doing, our invention: the invention of the intellectuals. If only we would stop setting man against man — often with the best intentions — much would be gained. Nobody can say that it is impossible for us to stop doing this.
Karl Popper
Most people are not intellectuals — a fact that intellectuals have terrible trouble coming to terms with.
John Derbyshire
Intellectuals may like to think of themselves as people who "speak truth to power" but too often they are people who speak lies to gain power.
Thomas Sowell
Intellectuals … advertise their superiority to political practice but are absolutely in its thrall. … It is no accident that Marxist theory and practice use the intellectuals as tools and keep them in brutal subservience.
Allan Bloom
All men are intellectuals: but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals.
Antonio Gramsci
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