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The intelligentsia ...was kept busy embroidering white stitches on the philosophical and ecclesiastical vestments of the bourgeoisie - that old and filthy fabric besmeared with the blood of toiling masses.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Maxim Gorky |

If the Revolution has the right to destroy bridges and art monuments whenever necessary, it will stop still less from laying its hand on any tendency in art which, no matter how great its achievement in form, threatens to disintegrate the revolutionary environment or to arouse the internal forces of the Revolution, that is, the proletariat, the peasantry and the intelligentsia, to a hostile opposition to one another. Our standard is, clearly, political, imperative and intolerant.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | Leon Trotsky |

A large section of the intelligentsia seems wholly devoid of intelligence.

+Fav | Go to Quote / Comment | G K Chesterton |