Freeman Dyson Quotes

Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America.

There's something awful about Oxford, I think. It's such a little ghetto.

I can always tell if someone's from Harvard because they trot out their vitae. I would die at Harvard.

I'm not ashamed of any of my papers at all and I'm rather sick of snobs that tell us that they're bad papers, snobs who only read papers that no one else wants. I doubt if they read many papers at all.

I'm not saying that all college students are subhuman - I'm just saying that if you aim to spend a few years mastering the art of pomposity, these are places where you can be taught by undisputed experts.

I didn't want any degrees if all the ill-read literates and radio announcers and pedagogical dummies I knew had them by the peck.

The educated elite is not without their own actual snobbery. And I kind of an anti-elitist in that regard.

Intellectualism came very late to America. That's why Americans are so proud of it. I found very few real intellectuals in America. But there are so many pseudo-intellectuals.

We are tired of aristocratic explanations in Harvard words.

What a sense of superiority it gives one to escape reading some book which everyone else is reading.

President Obama once said he wants everybody in America to go to college. What a snob.

I don't come from an Ivy League school or anywhere else.

The House of Commons is full of fat and pompous plutocrats…Public schools are cradles of sickening snobbery.

A spirit of national masochism prevails, encouraged by an effete corps of impudent snobs who characterize themselves as intellectuals.

an intellectual arrogance and unconscious assumption of superiority.

Free society! We sicken at the name. What is it but a conglomeration of greasy mechanics, filthy operatives, small-fisted farmers, and moon-struck theorists? All the northern, and especially the New England states, are devoid of society fitted for well-bred gentlemen. The prevailing class one meets with is that of mechanics struggling to be genteel, and small farmers who do their own drudgery, and yet are hardly fit for association with a southern gentleman’s body servant.

To be sure, many cultural elite pastimes are easily mocked and annoying.

The same group of New York pseudo-intellectuals who've put down prayer are the same ones who put down L.A.

The greatest sin of the academic left is that it has become fundamentally aristocratic, writing in bizarre jargon that makes cliches seem abstruse. If you can't explain your ideal to a fairly intelligent 12-year-old, it's probably your own fault.

It makes me sad there is still some intellectual snobbery out there.

There is an intellectual snobbery that, regrettably, many academics suffer from. They are proud their paper is only read by a small group of people - makes it very exclusive. Let's get rid of that. If it's truly important, people should be excited about it.

There's the anti-intellectual movement in society and I don't blame them entirely for feeling that way because we all know people, I have many colleagues where you try to hang out with them and they make you feel bad for not knowing what they know. If that's how you interact with people, why would anyone want to be that.

Yale men do not like to be told anything by people who didn't go to Yale. The closest I came to Yale was once I had one of their padlocks.

Snobbery is not merely a silly human weakness but something basic in the mentality of modern man-a symptom which reflects the general sickness, the dislocation of social and cultural values in contemporary civilization.

The small town smart set is deadly serious about its smartness.