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Jewish intellectuals contributed a great deal to insure that Europe became a continent of humanism, and it is with these humanist ideals that Europe must now intervene in the Middle East conflict.


Daniel Barenboim


#conflict #continent #contributed #deal #east

Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid a very high price.


Tahar Ben Jelloun


#difficult #going #had #high #high price

There is a gulf between the Arab peoples and Arab intellectuals.


Tahar Ben Jelloun


#between #gulf #intellectuals

We do not have many intellectuals who can speak out for us internationally. We have no writers who are recognized, respected and loved outside the Arab world.


Tahar Ben Jelloun


#arab world #intellectuals #internationally #loved #many

We have no Arab intellectuals of international stature because we live in a state of generalized mediocrity. We are suspended in the pit without touching the bottom.


Tahar Ben Jelloun


#because #bottom #generalized #intellectuals #international

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

I realised quite early on that, although I wasn't trying to make a career speciality of it, I was playing slightly asexual, sociopathic intellectuals.


Benedict Cumberbatch


#career #early #i #intellectuals #make

Those intellectuals are our natural enemies; the only kind who are worth anything are the musicians and the dancers: they don’t insult anybody with their performances, and they neither sing nor dance politics. So I like them; but don’t let me hear a word about the rest


Alfred de Vigny


#politics #nature

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

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


#oligarchy #tyranny #experience






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