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Last updated on November 19, 2024.
It is important that the Muslim leaders, scholars, and intellectuals are much more vocal and explain what Islam is.
The intellectuals and the young, booted and spurred, feel themselves born to ride us.
Well, the capacity of French intellectuals to understand a Texan way of thinking is finite.
Intellectuals never sound more foolish than when posing as the last civilised man.
Along with all else, Sandman is a comic strip for intellectuals, and I say it's about time.
We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.
Some of the biggest cases of mistaken identity are among intellectuals who have trouble remembering that they are not God.
We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense
But, of course only morons would ever think or speak of themselves as intellectuals. That's why they all look so sad.
Manhattan was the capital of the twentieth century for black writers, artists, and intellectuals as much as it was for their white counterparts.
Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
Professional intellectuals are the voice of a culture and are, therefore, its leaders, its integrators and its bodyguards.
Thank God I am not an intellectual! What a garbage of knowledge, what an unnecessary glossary of terms they have, those intellectuals!
With intellectuals, moral thought is often less a tonic that quickens ethical action than a narcotic that deadens it.
France is an idea, not a territory. They pay more attention to intellectuals here; they give artists and writers the feeling they're valued.
Isaiah Berlin described the intellectuals of [Mikhail] Bakunin's "Red bureaucracy" as a "secular priesthood.
I think that intellectuals who end up in hell will have to read page proofs and check indexes there.
Intellectuals cannot tolerate the chance event, the unintelligible: they have a nostalgia for the absolute, for a universally comprehensive scheme.
It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
The last thing we need are more pointy-headed intellectuals running the government.
England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.
Among intellectuals who consider themselves 'scientific,' the phrase 'the nature of man' is apt to have the effect of a red flag on a bull.
Real intellectuals like to escape once in a while from their world of intellect.
The job of intellectuals is to come up with ideas, and all we've been producing is footnotes.
Personally, I don't claim to be a great director. My films are made for children, not intellectuals.
Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s
We mustn't forget how quickly the visions of genius become the canned goods of intellectuals.
Screaming racism is the last refuge of leftist intellectuals who've completely lost their mojo.
Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.
Without doubt cats are intellectuals who have been, by some mysterious decree of Providence, deprived of the comfort of the word.
Intellectuals who live in Hungary, or who wish to work or lecture there, are extremely circumspect in their criticism.
You know, it's one thing about intellectuals, they prove that you can be absolutely brilliant and have no idea what's going on.
I strongly discourage any intellectuals, regardless of race, from speaking on matters for which they have limited or no expertise.
Revolution is glorified by intellectuals, apotheosized by poets, sanctified by visionaries, and bled white by politicians.
One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.
Some of our finest leaders were not intellectuals at all, and I admire them enormously because they weren't. Harry Truman wasn't.
It is a hard thing for intellectuals to acknowledge benefits from their rich moral inferiors who never so intended it.
Not even anthropologists or intellectuals, no matter how many books they have, can find out all our secrets.
Certainly the party counts a considerable number of intellectuals among its members, but I am by no means disposed to apologise for that.
[One task of intellectuals is] to break down the stereotypes and reductive categories that are . . . limiting to human thought and communication.
In my view, aiming at simplicity and lucidity is a moral duty of all intellectuals: lack of clarity is a sin, and pretentiousness is a crime.
It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.
Intellectuals incline to be individualists, or even independents, are not team conscious and tend to regard obedience as a surrender of personality.
No modern nation has ever constructed a foreign policy that was acceptable to its intellectuals
Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s.
I don't make movies for pseudo-intellectuals. I don't want them to watch my films.
Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.
You're a genius! And the proof is that both common people and intellectuals find your work completely incoherent.
When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression.
Intellectuals have opinions on subjects they just heard about five minutes ago.
Television turned out to be exactly as bad as the most irritating and pedantic intellectuals of the '50s said it was going to be.
States have always needed intellectuals to con the public into believing that its rule is wise, good, and inevitable
The difference between western and eastern intellectuals is that the former have not been kicked in the ass enough.
Intellectuals ought to study the past not for the pleasure they find in so doing, but to derive lessons from it.
I started to wonder, and felt relieved that there might be truth to the idea of intellectuals all being frauds. I knew that I certainly was.
I hate intellectuals. They are from the top down. I am from the bottom up.
Trendy intellectuals always take action for every cause that's been in fashion.
Everyone enjoys stories of double lives and secret identities. Children have Superman; intellectuals have Wallace Stevens.
Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.
We, as conservative intellectuals, should not be in the business of making excuses for bad parliamentary decisions by Republican leaders in Congress.
