Intellectual Bankruptcy Quotes

When I see the worsening degeneracy in our politicians, our media, our educators, and our intelligentsia, I can’t help wondering if the day may yet come when the only thing that can save this country is a military coup

To answer brutality with brutality is to admit one's moral and intellectual bankruptcy.

[T]o argue that something is so because it is in the Bible is more than intellectually bankrupt.

Man's Reason is in such deep insolvency to sense,that tho' she guide his highest flight heav'nward, and teach himdignity morals manners and human comfort,she can delicatly and dangerously bedizenthe rioting joys that fringe the sad pathways of Hell.

A nation or civilization that continues to produce soft-minded men purchases its own spiritual death on the installment plan.

Mr. Bush has squandered the hard-built paternity of 40 years. But so has the party, and so have its leaders. If they had pushed away for serious reasons, they could have separated the party's fortunes from the president's. This would have left a painfully broken party, but they wouldn't be left with a ruined brand,- as they all say, speaking the language of marketing. And they speak that language because they are marketers, not thinkers. Not serious about policy. Not serious about ideas. And not serious about leadership, only followership.

Hence, in all countries the chief occupation of society is card-playing, and it is the gauge of its value, and an outward sign that it is bankrupt in thought. Because people have no thoughts to deal in, they deal cards, and try and win one another’s money. Idiots!

Those for whom words have lost their value are likely to find that ideas have also lost their value.

What a pretty thing man is when he goes in his doublet and hose and leaves off his wit!

An expenditure of words without income of ideas will lead to intellectual bankruptcy.

Ward Churchill might be more valuable to the opponents of the academic left employed than unemployed. Above all, he can serve as a living window into the intellectual, moral, and political bankruptcy of the left.

A slavish concern for the composition of words is the sign of a bankrupt intellect. Be gone, odious wasp! You smell of decayed syllables.

The unluckiest insolvent in the world is the man whose expenditure of speech is too great for his income of ideas.