Marxism is the opium of the intellectuals.

It is certainly safe, in view of the movement to the right of intellectuals and political thinkers, to pronounce the brain death of socialism.

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

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

Intellectuals would be much more accepted now than in the '40s.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

My parents were liberal intellectuals but even they expected me to stay at home and look after my younger siblings and do the housework.

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

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.