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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.

Intellectuals are people who manage the world in their head. They look at life and try to see some kind of truth, and if they cannot find it, they attempt to create it.

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

There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results.

Intellectuals are good at seeing the big picture. But they are not so good at process.

Some of our finest leaders were not intellectuals at all, and I admire them enormously because they weren't. Harry Truman wasn't.

Intellectuals are too sentimental for me.

The majority must be persuaded by ideology that their government is good, wise and, at least, inevitable, and certainly better than other conceivable alternatives. Promoting this ideology among the people is the vital social task of the 'intellectuals.'

Intellectuals solve problems, geniuses prevent them.

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.