George Orwell on intellectuals

[Mark was here]

In what book does Orwell talk about college professors with patches "on their jacket elbows", who claim to "be for the working man" yet in reality they hold themselves to be of a higher class status than the mere working man?

[DIRTYSECRET]

Don’t know the answer. Orwell was an interesting fella. In Homage to Catalonia I couldn’t figure out who the bad guys. I’ll trained, supplied and led army he joined. If that shot in the neck killed him he wouldn’t have written the book. That includes Animal Farm & 1984. A Socialist who knew the government would lie through it’s teeth was still a Socialist.

[Slyfox]

Animal Farm & 1984 were HIllary’s favorite books when she was growing up.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Makes you wonder what side she was on.

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[LRoggy]

Almost sounds like a Johnny Carson Great Karnak routine . . .

“1984, Animal Farm and Such Such Were The Joys,”

When, Where and Why did Hillary Clinton learn how to eat at the public trough?

[catnipman]

“Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.”

George Orwell

not sure if that was in one of his books or a standalone quote

i like to sometimes paraphrase it as:

“Some ideas are so stupid that only Harvard professors believe them.”

[Slyfox]

[GOP Poet]

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[AndyTheBear]

“Some ideas are so stupid that only Harvard professors believe them.”

Way back in 1636 Rene Descartes had said it:

"For it occurred to me that I should find much more truth in the reasonings of each individual with reference to the affairs in which he is personally interested, and the issue of which must presently punish him if he has judged amiss, than in those conducted by a man of letters in his study, regarding speculative matters that are of no practical moment, and followed by no consequences to himself, farther, perhaps, than that they foster his vanity the better the more remote they are from common sense; requiring, as they must in this case, the exercise of greater ingenuity and art to render them probable." -- from "discourse on the method of rightly conducting the reason in the search for truth in the sciences" part 1, translated from the French by John Veitch

[Vic S]

Animal Farm & 1984 were HIllary’s favorite books when she was growing up.

You can't make this stuff up.

Hillary Clinton: Lesson of George Orwell's '1984' is to trust 'leaders, the press, experts'

https://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2017/sep/14/hillary-clinton-lesson-1984-trust-leaders-press/

[Wuli]

Can’t find it.

[Slyfox]

I am sure she imagined herself as the head pig of the farm.

[wildbill]

Wrong George??? Look for some writings by George Wallace who famously lampooned “pointy headed professors” back in the day :-)

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

Bkmrk.

[poconopundit]

I searched Wikiquotes and could not find the Huxley quote you were looking fork, or anything close. Here's a good one from H. L. Mencken:

Because a man is a Ph.D. and licensed to teach Latin grammar it is assumed that he is generally intelligent — that he shares, to some extent at least, in the stupendous miscellaneous knowledge of a Virchow or Huxley.  The assumption is often false. He may be, in fact, practically an imbecile, and not infrequently he actually is.

[poconopundit]

Here's a related 1940s quote from Orwell that has an eerie parallel to today's America:

England is perhaps the only great country whose intellectuals are ashamed of their own nationality.   In left-wing circles it is always felt that there is something slightly disgraceful in being an Englishman and that it is a duty to snigger at every English institution, from horse racing to suet puddings. 

It is a strange fact, but it is unquestionably true that almost any English intellectual would feel more ashamed of standing to attention during God save the King than of stealing from a poor box.

[joshua c]

“Some ideas are so stupid that only intellectuals believe them.”

George Orwell

not sure if that was in one of his books or a standalone quote

i like to sometimes paraphrase it as:

“Some ideas are so stupid that only Harvard professors believe them.”

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They are so smart, they have to remove their common sense to make room for all that knowledge.

[SES1066]

Here's a good one from H. L. Mencken:

Definitely valid and goes well with William F Buckley's quip about preferring rule by people found in the phone book to the same by the Harvard Faculty. However, in light of today's predilection for asking sage advice from Hollywood, Pop Music or sports stars, I cannot help but to wonder what Mencken would have said about that!

[SeafoodGumbo]

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