Intelligentsia Quotes

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

The intelligent are to the intelligentsia what a gentleman is to a gent.
Stanley Baldwin

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 liberal intelligentsia has allowed its party to become a captive of corporate interests.
Ralph Nader

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