Intellectuals Quotes

When you have a foreign invasion - in this case by the Indonesian army - writers, intellectuals, newspapers and magazines are the first targets of repression.

We have too many intellectuals who are afraid to use the pistol of common sense.

Like many intellectuals, he was incapable of saying a simple thing in a simple way.

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.

I realised quite early on that, although I wasn't trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.

Futurism: This was a movement of intellectuals who wanted to replace tradition with the modern world of machinery, speed, violence, and public relations. It proves that we should be careful what intellectuals wish for, because we might get it.

Certainly the party counts a considerable number of intellectuals among its members, but I am by no means disposed to apologise for that.

Ironically, Latin American countries, in their instability, give writers and intellectuals the hope that they are needed.

We've no use for intellectuals in this outfit. What we need is chimpanzees. Let me give you a word of advice: never say a word to us about being intelligent. We will think for you, my friend. Don't forget it.

We do not have many intellectuals who can speak out for us internationally. We have no writers who are recognized, respected and loved outside the Arab world.

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.

My wife and I, unlike many intellectuals, spent five years working on assembly lines. We came to fully understand the criticisms of the industrial age, in which you are an appendage of a machine that sets the pace.

There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals.

Most intellectuals today have a phobia of any explanation of the mind that invokes genetics.

Don't make art for other artists or for 'intellectuals', make art for people - and if you can touch just one person in a lifetime and make a difference - you have succeeded.

It's the job of intellectuals and writers to cast doubt on perfection.