intelligentsia

• Ironically, while the intelligentsia were using social evolution to confirm laissez- faire capitalism to one another, the politicians promoting these policies to the masses were making the same sale through creationism.
• Precisely the members of our so-called intelligentsia are the hardest to move to a really clear and logical defense of their interests and the interests of their nation. —  Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf: Eastern Orientation or Eastern Policy
• But in all these districts the so-calledintelligentsia no longer offers any serious resistance to this Jewish disease,for the simple reason that this intelligentsia is itself completely degeneratephysically, though less for reasons of poverty than for reasons of education.In times when not the mind but the fist decides, the purely intellectualemphasis of our education in the upper classes makes them incapable of defendingthemselves, let alone enforcing their will. —  Adolf Hitler's Mein Kampf: Causes of the Collapse
• Many members of the Calcutta intelligentsia are among his followers I inwardly resolved not to add myself to their number. —  Autobiography of a Yogi
• No significant social movement will take place if the intelligentsia is cloistered in ivory towers, alienated from the activists who need them for education and guidance. —  Countercurrents.org

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