Intelligentsia

The word intelligentsia derives from the Latin word intelligentia, meaning a group of people engaged in complex mental and creative labor directed to the development and dissemination of culture. ❋ Unknown (2008)

GINGRICH: No. The intellectuals around me would -- if you wanted to use the term intelligentsia -- I mean, there's a self-identified, elite intellectual group in America who see themselves as the guardians of this alternative to traditional American civilization, and these are folks who write what I think is largely gibberish and explain deconstructionism and all sorts of ideas that I, frankly, don't pay much attention to, but that are somehow mystically going to be better than American civilization: multiculturalism, the counterculture, etc. ❋ Unknown (1995)

I find the choice of words interesting - 'intelligentsia' is from the Russian I believe. ❋ Newmania (2008)

The idea that "the worldview of the intelligentsia is necessarily in tension with a religious worldview, is plainly wrong." ❋ Amarnath Amarasingam (2010)

The key motive for self-replicating propaganda amongst the Western intelligentsia is status-seeking — what in this context is labelled moral vanity …. ❋ Unknown (2006)

The word intelligentsia was coined to describe the class of revolutionary thinkers who are at the center of Part II, Shipwreck. ❋ Unknown (2007)

The attack on the intelligentsia is well known: from writers to scientists, they perished in droves. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Some time within the next year a pro-Hitler reaction within the left-wing intelligentsia is likely enough. ❋ Unknown (1941)

Later he was converted to Communism, returned to Russia, and produced his book as a sort of ‘show-up’ of the British intelligentsia from a Marxist standpoint. ❋ Unknown (1937)

But the working-class intelligentsia is sharply divisible into two different types. ❋ Unknown (1937)

You ask whether you are a member of the uk "intelligentsia" - well I will say that there are countless people who are appalled by those people. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The reality of the situation on the ground - irrespective of the theoretical and supposedly ideological constructs that are given currency in the mock discourse among the 'intelligentsia' - is that this is a fight between two corrupt entities that find mutual benefit and enrichment in fake engagements which can be sustained in perpetuity. ❋ Abhay N (2007)

And while the Venetian intelligentsia is considering ways of dealing with the problem, the point of next weekend’s demonstrations is to carry the message directly to the Venetian people, and above all, to the city government. ❋ Unknown (2005)

My friends from years back, members of what used to be known as the intelligentsia a class that is rapidly ceasing to exist, may be doing well, but many Poles are not. ❋ Unknown (2011)