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Intelligentsia Quotes

A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted at will. Eric Hoffer
What sense would it make to classify a man as handicapped because he is in a wheelchair today, if he is expected to be walking again in a month, and competing in track meets before the year is out? Yet Americans are generally given 'class' labels on the basis of their transient location in the income stream. If most Americans do not stay in the same broad income bracket for even a decade, their repeatedly changing 'class' makes class itself a nebulous concept. Yet the intelligentsia are... Thomas Sowell
Guillermo del Toro quote: "video games are the comic books of our time... It's a medium..."
video games are the comic books of our time... It's a medium that gains no respect among the intelligentsia". Guillermo del Toro
If facts, logic, and scientific procedures are all just arbitrarily "socially constructed" notions, then all that is left is consensus--more specifically peer consensus, the kind of consensus that matters to adolescents or to many among the intelligentsia. Thomas Sowell
All in all it is difficult not to feel that pacifism, as it appears among a section of the intelligentsia, is secretly inspired by an admiration for power and successful cruelty. George Orwell
Frank's bio prompts us to to ask ourselves why we seem to require of our art an ironic distance from deep convictions or desperate questions, so that contemporary writers have either to make jokes of them or else try to work them in under cover of some formal trick like intertextual quotation or incongruous juxtaposition, sticking the really urgent stuff inside asterisks as part of some multivalent defamiliarization flourish or some shit...Our intelligentsia distrust strong belief, open... David Foster Wallace
Under democracy one party always devotes it's chief energies to prove that the other party is unfit to rule-- and both commonly succeed, and are right. the United States has never developed an aristocracy really disinterested or an intelligentsia really intelligent. It's history is simply a record of vacillations between two gangs of frauds. H. L. Mencken
The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience. Lech Walesa
Ron Silver quote: "In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the..."
In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite. Ron Silver
The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture. Hu Shih
Alison Bechdel quote: "My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the..."
My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up. Alison Bechdel
Ralph Nader quote: "The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a..."
The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests. Ralph Nader
Stanley Baldwin quote: "The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is..."
The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent. Stanley Baldwin
Diane Abbott quote: "Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster..."
Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider. Diane Abbott

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