Lech Walesa

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.

Polish Politician

Asma Jahangir

We are so resilient as a people. I have so much respect for their dignity and courage. I hope the world sees this side of Pakistan, one where professionals want a democracy. The spirit of our intelligentsia cannot be broken.

Pakistani Activist

Avigdor Lieberman

Although my stance on responsible citizenship made sense to many Israelis, the intelligentsia could not, as you say in English, get their heads around it. 'Racist' and 'fascist' were the knee-jerk reactions.

Israeli Politician

Robert Eggers

If you're a part of this urban intelligentsia, you're not around animals all the time the way people were in the past. So animals become a part of the folklore.

American Director

Louis MacNeice

Before I joined the BBC I was, like most of the intelligentsia, prejudiced not only against that institution but against broadcasting in general.

British Poet

Ron Silver

In Europe, people in the arts are considered part of the intelligentsia; they are considered part of the elite.

American Actor

Alison Bechdel

My mother is, my father certainly was. They were kind of the local intelligentsia in the town where I grew up.

American Cartoonist

Steve Erickson

When the Doors became huge, what nascent rock intelligentsia existed at the time adored them.

American Novelist

Ralph Nader

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

American Lawyer

Stanley Baldwin

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

English Statesman

In some regions, 'intelligentsia' may imply a social class that's distinct from the broader population due to their intellectual pursuits.

Cultural Nuance

The term is sometimes used critically to suggest the group has too much influence or is detached from everyday concerns.

Political Associations

In history, particularly in Russia, 'intelligentsia' described a status group with specific political roles.

Historical Context

 Giants upon whose shoulders today's intelligentsia stand did not have to have English they didn't know how to pass an English test case in point Einstein he by the way was considered remedial at school because he was in fact dyslexic but fortunately for the world he did not

Don't insist on English!...

 that no candidate for popular election dare affirm it in public. If I'm right, this means that high office in the greatest country in the world is barred to the very people best qualified to hold it -- the intelligentsia --

Militant atheism PIPE...

 walk the talk the pan-african revolutionary and agronomist train ignore agronomist one said that the african intelligentsia must commit

Intelligentsia