All men are intellectuals: but not all men have in society the function of intellectuals.
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Selections from the Prison Notebooks (1971)Antonio Gramsci
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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 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
One of the main reasons American liberals adore Europe is that Europe still worships its intellectuals. In America, intellectuals are mostly for entertainment. But across the pond, these folks get to do real damage. Why, just this spring a small Italian village had its barbershop cited by the local magistrate because its shaving brushes did not conform to the standard set by the European Union. I am not making this up. ()
Jonah Goldberg
Socialism has never and nowhere been at first a working-class movement. It is by no means an obvious remedy for the obvious evil which the interests of that class will necessarily demand. It is a construction of theorists, deriving from certain tendencies of abstract thought with which for a long time only the intellectuals were familiar; and it required long efforts by the intellectuals before the working classes could be persuaded to adopt it as their program.
Friedrich Hayek
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