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Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

Albert Einstein

Brainy Problems Them Prevent Solve

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

Hope American Give Needed

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.

White More House White House

'Capitalism' is a dirty word for many intellectuals, but there are a number of studies showing that open economies and free trade are negatively correlated with genocide and war.

War Free Capitalism Dirty

I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed; but to also be able to get off those perches and out of those ivory towers and speak to the real people who make decisions; to speak truth to power and the powerless with lucidity and eloquence.

Michael Eric Dyson

Work People Truth Power

I learned most of what I knew about online communities on The Well, and it was a good place to learn. The group of people in Sausalito and Bolinas who'd gotten the Whole Earth Catalog off the ground - a bunch of boomer hippies, intellectuals and nerds - established the 'Whole Earth 'Lectronic Link', and showed us what online communities were.

Good People Place Earth

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.

Freedom Childhood Parents Born

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

Today Mind Genetics Most

The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests.

Power Those Who Serve

Some people spend their time reasoning and thinking out everything, and so anything that cannot be fully understood, they will not accept. We call these people 'intellectuals.'

Mother Angelica

Time People Thinking Some People

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

Simple Intelligence Saying Way

Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.

Hidden Position Intentions Actions

Venezuelan interests are to be defended by Venezuela. The U.S. should defend the interests of the U.S. Where are the U.S. people, where are the intellectuals, who could put limits on their government?

People Limits Government Who

Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

Courage Keep Going Situation Voice

The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles.

Society Important Revolution Dislike

It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been for the most part either an outsider, a servant or a scapegoat.

Richard Hofstadter

History Political Intellectual United

Dissident intellectuals aren't all beautiful.

The war industry people are very together; they know exactly what they want; they don't even have to talk to each other. The peace industry people are just intellectuals who are very critical of each other... Unless the peace industry is powerful, we're always going to have war. It is as simple as that.

Simple War Peace People

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.

Believe Think Confusion Human

In the 1970s, many intellectuals had become political radicals. Marxism was correct, liberalism was for wimps, and Marx had pronounced that 'the ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.'

Age Political Ideas Class

Advice to intellectuals: let no-one represent you.

Theodor W. Adorno

You Intelligence Advice No-One

After learning the language and culture of the Chinese people, these Jesuits began to establish contacts with the young intellectuals of the country.

Learning People Culture Language

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

Thinking World Two Modern

Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.

Religion Many 18th Century Century

Authority has to exist before it can be limited, and it is authority that is in scarce supply in those modernizing countries where government is at the mercy of alienated intellectuals, rambunctious colonels, and rioting students.

Ferdinand Marcos

Government Mercy Authority Students

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.

People Believe Ideas Own

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