#intellectual

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

— Antonio Tabucchi

#case #first #foreign #intellectuals #invasion

Love isn't intellectual - it's visceral. ↗

— Kelly McGillis

#love #visceral

There is no greater excitement than to support an intellectual wife and have her support you. Marriage is a partnership in which each inspires the other, and brings fruition to both of you. ↗

— Millicent Carey McIntosh

#brings #each #excitement #fruition #greater

Humor is perhaps a sense of intellectual perspective: an awareness that some things are really important, others not; and that the two kinds are most oddly jumbled in everyday affairs. ↗

— Christopher Morley

#affairs #awareness #everyday #important #intellectual

The moral and intellectual character of the Africans is widely different in different nations. ↗

— Samuel George Morton

#different #intellectual #moral #nations #widely

A novelist should not be too intelligent either, although... he may be permitted to be an intellectual. ↗

— Anthony Burgess

#either #intellectual #intelligent #may #novelist

There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age that the honorable term 'conservatism' can be appropriated to disguise the advocacy of a powerful, lawless, aggressive and violent state, a welfare state for the rich dedicated to a lunatic form of Keynesian economic intervention that enhances state and private power while mortgaging the country's future. ↗

— Noam Chomsky

#conservatism #economics #intellectuals #keynesianism #law

Absurdity is the ecstasy of intellectualism. ↗

— Criss Jami

#absurdity #art #artist #ecstasy #experiment

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good ↗

— Ezra Pound

#courage #criticism #intellectuals #opinion #taboos

...She had little patience with people who got intellectually lazy when faced with a difficult concept. ↗

— Beth Fantaskey

#impatient #intellectual #lazy #dating