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The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent. -- Stanley Baldwin
The liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests. -- Ralph Nader
Finally, there's a sense in which I look at this Westminster village and London intelligentsia as an outsider. -- Diane Abbott
The Black Panther Party was not a gang. They grew out of a young black intelligentsia on college campuses. -- Bobby Seale
In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite. -- Ron Silver
My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up. -- Alison Bechdel
Before I joined the BBC I was, like most of the intelligentsia, prejudiced not only against that institution but against broadcasting in general. -- Louis MacNeice
The Russian yearning for the meaning of life is the major theme of our literature, and this is the real point of our intelligentsia's existence. -- Nikolai Berdyaev
Dublin was hardly worried by the war; her old preoccupations were still preoccupations. The intelligentsia continued their parties; their mutual malice was as effervescent as ever. -- Louis MacNeice
I think my love of truth and honesty forces me to notice that the liberal intelligentsia of Western countries is betraying itself where Islam is concerned. -- Richard Dawkins
The Jesuits had learned that a Christian mission to China could never succeed if it were not in a position to show and convince the Chinese intelligentsia of the superiority of the European culture. -- Hu Shih
The sole and basic source of our strength is the solidarity of workers, peasants and the intelligentsia, the solidarity of the nation, the solidarity of people who seek to live in dignity, truth, and in harmony with their conscience. -- Lech Walesa
The intelligentsia has disdained commerce throughout Western history. -- Peter Saunders
A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence. -- Gilbert K. Chesterton
One should herd the entire intelligentsia into a mine and then blow it sky-high. -- Heinrich Muller
Art, unless it leads to right action, is no more than the opium of an intelligentsia. -- W. Somerset Maugham
Hatred of producers of wealth still flourishes and has become, in fact, the racism of the intelligentsia. -- George Gilder
It's among the intelligentsia that we often find the glib compulsion to explain everything and to understand nothing. -- Joost Meerloo
He's clever,' thought Ivan,' I must admit there are some smart people even among the intelligentsia -- Mikhail Bulgakov
video games are the comic books of our time... It's a medium that gains no respect among the intelligentsia". -- Guillermo del Toro
In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite -- Ron Silver
One has to belong to the intelligentsia to believe things like that: no ordinary man could be such a fool. -- George Orwell
We shall solve this problem, and afterwards Warsaw as the Capital and the pool of intelligentsia of that nation will be destroyed. -- Heinrich Himmler
The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality. -- Thomas Sowell
My love of truth and honesty forces me to notice that the liberal intelligentsia of Western countries is betraying itself where Islam is concerned. -- Richard Dawkins
A ruling intelligentsia, whether in Europe, Asia or Africa, treats the masses as raw material to be experimented on, processed, and wasted at will. -- Eric Hoffer
On campuses, and when I speak to the younger intelligentsia, I am getting a hunger for the text - the authentic text for Jewish knowledge. -- Arthur Hertzberg
Wherever Christianity has produced what historians call a 'popular piety' claiming to be part of the national heritage, anti-Christian reaction among the intelligentsia has followed. -- J. I. Packer
To whom should propaganda be addressed? To the scientifically trained intelligentsia or the less educated masses? It must be addressed always and exclusively to the masses. -- Adolf Hitler
The intelligentsia ...was kept busy embroidering white stitches on the philosophical and ecclesiastical vestments of the bourgeoisie - that old and filthy fabric besmeared with the blood of toiling masses. -- Maxim Gorky
Our society consists exclusively of free working people of cities and villages, workers, peasants, intelligentsia. Each of these strata may have its special interests and express them in numerous existing organizations. -- Joseph Stalin
I go in for what is known in the trade as 'light writing' and those who do that - humorists they are sometimes called - are looked down upon by the intelligentsia and sneered at. -- P. G. Wodehouse

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