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The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works.
Jacques Barzun
Cause
Anguish
Another
Intellectuals
Chief
Works
Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions.
John McCarthy
Sometimes
Riots
Tens
Most
Ideological
Intellectuals
Soccer
Millions
Every White House has had its intellectuals, but very few presidents have been intellectuals themselves - Thomas Jefferson, John Adams, Woodrow Wilson, the list more or less stops there.
Jonathan Raban
Few
White
White House
Every
Thomas
Thomas Jefferson
Presidents
Wilson
John
John Adams
More
More Or Less
Had
House
Been
Intellectuals
Very
List
Stops
Woodrow
Woodrow Wilson
Themselves
Less
Jefferson
Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.
Jonathan Sacks
Religion
Imminent
Since
Demise
Western
Intellectuals
Predicted
Century
Many
I allowed myself to be taken in by the intellectuals. I believed too much in the Polish intellectuals and followed their advice.
Lech Walesa
Myself
Too Much
Advice
Too
Followed
Allowed
Taken
Polish
Intellectuals
Much
Believed
I was born in April of 1966, on the eve of the Cultural Revolution. Soon after, my parents and grandparents all lost personal freedom simply for being intellectuals. So I spent most of my childhood rotating between adopted families of peasants and coalminers.
Li Lu
Freedom
Parents
Lost
Revolution
Spent
April
Born
Adopted
Simply
Soon
Between
Most
Cultural
Intellectuals
Families
Personal
Childhood
Personal Freedom
Being
After
Grandparents
Rotating
Eve
Peasants
I think Britain is a little better at bringing intellectuals into discourse than America, where I'm from. Though I would say, perhaps, that the U.K. prefers its intellectualism to be entertaining.
Lionel Shriver
Better
Think
Say
Though
Would
Entertaining
Perhaps
Discourse
Intellectually
Intellectuals
Than
America
Where
Little
Bringing
Britain
The left-wing thinkers and intellectuals have been more misogynist with me than the army. They can't accept that a young woman is able to think, and they underestimate the intellectual work and study I might have done. They ask who is the man behind me.
Maria de Medeiros
Work
Me
Man
Army
Woman
Young
Think
Able
More
Study
Underestimate
Accept
Been
Intellectual
Intellectuals
Left-Wing
Than
Done
Behind
Young Woman
Might
Ask
Who
Thinkers
I don't think many people understand what racism is. The intellectuals use it like toilet paper; it's something they can use. It's not something they live.
Mark Fuhrman
Racism
People
Live
Think
Paper
Something
Like
Understand
Intellectuals
Use
Toilet
Toilet Paper
Many
Some of our finest leaders were not intellectuals at all, and I admire them enormously because they weren't. Harry Truman wasn't.
Michael Ignatieff
Our
Harry
Admire
Some
Finest
Leaders
Because
Were
Truman
Intellectuals
Them
The majority must be persuaded by ideology that their government is good, wise and, at least, inevitable, and certainly better than other conceivable alternatives. Promoting this ideology among the people is the vital social task of the 'intellectuals.'
Murray Rothbard
Government
Good
Wise
People
Better
Ideology
Inevitable
Other
Must
Promoting
Vital
Majority
Alternatives
Least
Intellectuals
Than
Task
Social
Persuaded
Certainly
Among
My parents are both intellectuals and readers; my mother would take me to the library every few days from before I was one year old.
Naomi Alderman
Me
Library
Mother
Old
Parents
Year
Before
Few
Every
Would
Both
Take
Days
Readers
Year-Old
Intellectuals
The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests.
Noam Chomsky
Power
Respected
Those
Intellectuals
Conform
Interests
Who
Serve
Mainstream Jewish intellectuals became 'pro'-Israel after the June 1967 war when Israel became the U.S.A.' s strategic asset in the Middle East, i.e., when it was safe and reaped benefits. To credit them with ideological conviction is, in my opinion, very naive.
Norman Finkelstein
War
Benefits
Conviction
East
Mainstream
Naive
Safe
Ideological
Became
Opinion
Israel
Intellectuals
Very
June
Middle
In My Opinion
Middle East
After
Them
Strategic
Asset
Credit
Jewish
One of the categories of people I don't like much are intellectuals. People say, 'Oh, you're an intellectual,' and I say, 'No!' What is an intellectual? An intellectual is somebody who thinks ideas are more important than people.
Paul Johnson
You
People
Somebody
Important
Say
People Say
More
Categories
Like
Ideas
Intellectual
Intellectuals
Than
Oh
Much
Who
Thinks
Intellectuals that read a lot of books might not have been interested in Mobb Deep before 'My Infamous Life,' but now they might go, 'Who are these guys?' and check us out.
Prodigy
Life
Before
Books
Out
Guys
Check
Read
Go
Been
Infamous
Lot
Intellectuals
Interested
Might
Us
Who
Deep
Now
I think that one possible definition of our modern culture is that it is one in which nine-tenths of our intellectuals can't read any poetry.
Randall Jarrell
Culture
Think
Our
Nine-Tenths
Definition
Possible
Poetry
Read
Intellectuals
Modern
Any
Modern Culture
Which
My mother introduced me to more academic-minded writers, Cornel West and Skip Gates. In her library, I came across, when I was very young, Harold Cruse's 'The Crisis of the Negro Intellectual,' which is like a bible of Negro intellectuals from Frederick Douglass to Amiri Baraka.
Rashid Johnson
Me
Library
Bible
Mother
Young
Harold
Crisis
Introduced
Frederick
More
Writers
Like
Came
West
Intellectual
Intellectuals
Very
Which
Across
Skip
Her
Gates
Intellectuals feel they are the most valuable people, the ones with the highest merit, and that society should reward people in accordance with their value and merit. But a capitalist society does not satisfy the principle of distribution 'to each according to his merit or value.'
Robert Nozick
People
Reward
Valuable
Value
Society
Distribution
Highest
Feel
Merit
Most
Principle
Does
His
Accordance
According
Intellectuals
Capitalist
Capitalist Society
Should
Each
Satisfy
Unsuccessful businessmen and workers do not have the same animus against the capitalist system as do the wordsmith intellectuals. Only the sense of unrecognized superiority, of entitlement betrayed, produces that animus.
Robert Nozick
Entitlement
Sense
System
Betrayed
Superiority
Only
Unsuccessful
Intellectuals
Same
Against
Workers
Capitalist
Produces
Businessmen
Theology is in disrepute among most Western intellectuals. The word is taken to mean a passe form of religious thinking that embraces irrationality and dogmatism. So too, Scholasticism.
Rodney Stark
Word
Thinking
Too
Religious
Embraces
Taken
Most
Dogmatism
Western
Intellectuals
Irrationality
Form
Mean
Theology
Among
Public intellectuals are often put in the position of having their words, no matter how off-the-cuff, treated as doctrine.
Roxane Gay
Words
Matter
Having
Put
Doctrine
How
Intellectuals
Often
Public
Treated
Position
It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.
Sam Harris
Faith
Time
Other
Observed
Between
Contest
Scientists
Intellectuals
Public
Reason
Zero-Sum
My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.
Sara Paretsky
Home
Me
Parents
Liberal
Stay
Stay-At-Home
Look
Housework
Were
Intellectuals
Expected
After
Younger
Even
Sibling
Many Afghan intellectuals in the United States believe that their country is best kept together. They are encouraged by the fact that no leading tribal or political figure there has called for secession.
Stephen Kinzer
Best
Together
Political
Tribal
Country
Believe
States
Fact
Leading
Encouraged
Intellectuals
Afghan
Figure
Many
United
United States
Secession
Kept
Want to depose the government of a poor country with resources? Want to bash Muslims? Want to build support for American military interventions around the world? Want to undermine governments that are raising their people up from poverty because they don't conform to the tastes of Upper West Side intellectuals? Use human rights as your excuse!
Stephen Kinzer
Government
Rights
People
World
Poverty
Country
Build
Military
Human Rights
Side
Resources
Muslims
Support
Excuse
Undermine
Because
Around
West
West Side
Governments
Up
Intellectuals
American
Tastes
Upper
Human
Want
Conform
Poor
American Military
Use
Your
Bash
Raising
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