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Quotations regarding 'Intellectuals'

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In the Arab world, there is no link between the cultural habits of peoples and the ways of thinking and creating of modern intellectuals. They are two separate worlds.
Tahar Ben Jelloun, French Poet (1944-  )
Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions.
John McCarthy, American Politician
I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind.
Frank McCourt, Irish Author (1930-  )
Certainly the party counts a considerable number of intellectuals among its members, but I am by no means disposed to apologise for that.
Harry Oppenheimer, South African Businessman (1908-2000)
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, American Author (1947-  )
I think this confusion leads intellectuals and artists themselves to believe that the elite arts and humanities are a kind of higher, exalted form of human endeavor.
Steven Pinker, Canadian Scientist (1954-  )
Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.
Steven Pinker, Canadian Scientist (1954-  )
Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.
Marcel Proust, French Author (1871-1922)
Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.
Manuel Puig, Argentinian Author (1932-1990)
After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.
Hu Shih, Chinese Philosopher (1891-1962)
Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals.
Douglas Sirk, German Director (1897-1987)
Country and western is ignored by the intellectuals. They don't look at it as an art form. They think it's just somebody sitting on his couch singing about his life.
Ricky Skaggs, American Musician (1954-  )
Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
Abdolkarim Soroush, Iranian Philosopher
Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s.
Parker Stevenson, American Actor (1952-  )
When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression.
Antonio Tabucchi, Italian Writer (1943-  )
It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.
Antonio Tabucchi, Italian Writer (1943-  )
It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.
Norman Tebbit, British Statesman (1931-  )
Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.
Edmund Wilson, American Critic (1895-1972)
 
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