Western Intellectuals Quotes

#1. 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

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

Jonathan Sacks

#3. His headache was still sitting over his right eye as if it had been nailed there.

Ian Fleming

#4. Shit happens. Deal with it.

A.D. Starrling

#5. I can't think of a story that doesn't have something terrible in it. Otherwise, it's dull. So when I embarked into the world of picture books, my first thought was to do something about the dark.

Daniel Handler

#6. The communist regime in the East could stand and grow due to the enthusiastic support from an enormous number of Western intellectuals who felt a kinship and refused to see communism's crimes. When they no longer could do so, they tried to justify them.

Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

#7. Two hundred years of work experience was a human resources nightmare.

Molly Harper

#8. The Non-Conformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.

Max Beerbohm

#9. In stark contrast with the views of the Greek philosophers and with those of the rest of western intellectuals to the present day, Chinese Taoist thought always defended individual liberty and laissez-faire while attacking the systematic and coercive use of violence typical of government.

Jesus Huerta De Soto

#10. A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves.

Bertrand De Jouvenel

#11. Every age has found some alternative to American values appealing. The number of Western intellectuals enamored of fascism and all the various expressions of Marxism was legion.

Dennis Prager

#12. Western intellectuals are all sitting-addicts. That's why most of you are so repulsively unwholesome.

Aldous Huxley

#13. Western intellectual Islamologists have totally failed in their duties as intellectuals. They have betrayed their calling by abandoning their critical faculties when it comes to Islam.

Wafa Sultan

#14. The difference between western and eastern intellectuals is that the former have not been kicked in the ass enough.

Witold Gombrowicz

#15. Multiculturalism asserts that all cultures are equal and therefore none may criticize another; intellectuals and politicians are therefore reluctant to declare the obvious superiority of Western culture to Islamic culture.

Edwin A. Locke

#16. There is a long dishonourable tradition of western intellectuals who have been duped by Moscow. The list includes Bernard Shaw, the Webbs, H. G. Wells, and Andre Gide.

Luke Harding

#17. There's all kinds of mothers, so to use the label 'mother' and to think you really understood all that a human being is because she's a mother, is a mistake.

Phylicia Rashad

#18. Computers have their own aleatoric aspect, too. They crash! But I'm a knob person. I like twiddling knobs.

Zeena Parkins

#19. Is there a better wrestling villain on TV these days than CM Punk? Arguable question but for my sauce, Punk is right there at the top of the heap with a handful of his peers.

Jim Ross

#20. 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