Intellectual Elite Quotes

#1. Mengistu seemed to symbolize the revolution. He was the baria, the slave who overthrew the master, the member of the conquered tribe who got even with the conquerors, the poorly educated son of a servant who rose against the intellectual elite.

Mengistu Haile Mariam

#2. What is remarkable is the polar opposition between the religiosity of the American public at large and the atheism of the intellectual elite.54

Richard Dawkins

#3. Yet the history of media shows that this is just the modern incarnation of the timeless complaint of the intellectual elite, every time technology makes publishing easier, that the wrong sort of people will use it to publish the wrong sorts of things.

Tom Standage

#4. Ulysses was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.

Orson Scott Card

#5. It might seem that being a genius is a golden ticket to a life of glamorous soirees with the intellectual elite, champagne flute in hand, arm candy at your side, surrounded by a throng of smiling sycophants. But you might be confusing this scene with the lifestyle of a diplomat

Andre De Guillaume

#6. The intellectually-inclined biographers stray from the point that the message is directed through the spoken word at the broad masses and not writing to an inbred, self-adoring intellectual elite."
--Hitler: Beyond Evil and Tyranny, pp. 30-31

Russel H.S. Stolfi

#7. Memory, imagination, and passionately responding in accord with the deeply embedded impulse to act with decency are pliable mechanisms that we can employ to attain happiness.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#8. When other Generals make mistakes their armies are beaten; when I get into a hole, my men pull me out of it.

Duke Of Wellington

#9. Comparisons deplete the actuality of the things compared ... ("Conveyance: The Story I would Not Want Bill Wilson To Read")

William S. Wilson

#10. It is our great collective misfortune that the scientific community made its decisive diagnosis of the climate threat at the precise moment when an elite minority was enjoying more unfettered political, cultural, and intellectual power than at any point since the 1920s.

Naomi Klein

#11. Chance is a name for our ignorance.

Leslie Stephen

#12. The restriction of knowledge to an elite group destroys the spirit of the society and leads to its intellectual impoverishment.

Albert Einstein

#13. Everybody's entitled to their opinions, but I don't understand why we have to saturate social media with all the negative stuff.

Megan Hilty

#14. An intellectual inferiority of the masses would manifest itself most evidently in their aiming at the abolition of the system in which they themselves are supreme and are served by the elite of the most talented men.

Ludwig Von Mises

#15. When it's all been said and done...
There's hell of a lot more said, than done.

Alan VanMeter

#16. Why people want stuff which make them transcendent or transcendence?? And then they just destroy it?? Why Humanity wants something and then destroy it?? THere are a lot of examples one of them is the film "Transcendence

Deyth Banger

#17. This is the thin time, when the beloved dead draw near. The world turns inward, and the chilling air grows thick with dreams and mystery.

Diana Gabaldon

#18. Ordering is difficult. It's like arranging pieces of music in a concert: What do you put first? What do you put after the intermission? I want the reader to be sort of surprised, to come to each story freshly.

Lydia Davis

#19. Since no one but you can know what's best for you, government control can't make your life better.

Harry Browne

#20. I wanted to write about relationships. But I didn't feel I had the experience to sing about them in a deep way. Studying psychology helped me out in terms of my understanding. I still look through my old textbooks when I'm in need of inspiration.

Natasha Bedingfield

#21. Murray said, "Is this Heaven?"
The Voice said, "This is no place as you understand place."
Murray was embarrassed, but the next question had to be asked. "Pardon me if I sound like a jackass. Are you God?

Isaac Asimov

#22. That is, perhaps, the greatest revelation I have had: not that depression is compelling but that the people who suffer from it may become compelling because of it.

Andrew Solomon