The intelligentsia does not chiefly consist of greedy, ruthless, power addicted idiots, nor radical, violent, asocial idiots, but mainly bleeding-heart "useful idiot" idiots
The Intelligentsia, Intellectuals, and Other Idiots
Distinguished professors, gifted poets, and influential journalists [and academics, and politicians, and lawyers, and judges, and...] summoned their talents to convince all who would listen that modern tyrants were liberators and that their unconscionable crimes were noble.... Whoever takes it upon himself to write an honest intellectual history of twentieth-century Europe [and America] will need a strong stomach. -- Professor Mark Lilla, Columbia University "The Reckless Mind"
