#elle

On a level plain, simple mounds look like hills; and the insipid flatness of our present bourgeoisie is to be measured by the altitude of its great intellects. ↗

— Karl Marx

#bourgeoisie #great #hills #insipid #intellects

Only a certain breed of actor should ever even try to work for Orson Welles. I'm glad I'm one of that breed. ↗

— Mercedes McCambridge

#breed #certain #even #ever #glad

Soccer riots kill at most tens. Intellectuals' ideological riots sometimes kill millions. ↗

— John McCarthy

#intellectuals #kill #millions #most #riots

A true intellectual is a man who, after reading a book and being convinced by its arguments, will shoot someone or, more likely, order someone shot. ↗

— John McCarthy

#being #book #convinced #intellectual #likely

The mind is like a richly woven tapestry in which the colors are distilled from the experiences of the senses, and the design drawn from the convolutions of the intellect. ↗

— Carson McCullers

#design #distilled #drawn #experiences #intellect

That's the mark of a great storyteller, never to give away secrets in advance. ↗

— Ian McDiarmid

#away #give #great #mark #never

After I set out to refute Christianity intellectually and couldn't, I came to the conclusion the Bible was true and Jesus Christ was God's Son. ↗

— Josh McDowell

#bible #came #christ #christianity #conclusion

The more we can do to support and promulgate the intellectual traditions of the Abrahamic faiths - of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam - the better armed we will be to fight fundamentalism. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#better #christianity #faiths #fight #fundamentalism

Extremists often derive their inspiration from literal interpretations of texts that should rightly be read not as Associated Press reports from the ancient world, but as theological and literary enterprises requiring independent intellectual assessment. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#assessment #associated #derive #enterprises #extremists

We could walk 3 minutes and be on the beach. I think the music kind of suffered because of it. It kind of smelled like Jimmy Buffett, which is a bad thing. ↗

— John Mellencamp

#bad thing #beach #because #could #i