Western Intellectuals Quotes

In our Eastern countries, communism has suffered a complete ideological defeat; it is zero and less than zero. And yet Western intellectuals still look at it with considerable interest and empathy.

Theology is in disrepute among most Western intellectuals. The word is taken to mean a passe form of religious thinking that embraces irrationality and dogmatism. So too, Scholasticism.

If the decline of Christianity created the modern political zealot - and his crimes - so the evaporation of religious faith among the educated left a vacuum in the minds of Western intellectuals easily filled by secular superstition. There is no other explanation for the credulity with which scientists, accustomed to evaluating evidence, and writers, whose whole function was to study and criticize society, accepted the crudest Stalinist propaganda at its face value. They needed to believe; they wanted to be duped.

Since the 18th century, many Western intellectuals have predicted religion's imminent demise.

There is a long dishonourable tradition of western intellectuals who have been duped by Moscow. The list includes Bernard Shaw, the Webbs, H. G. Wells, and Andre Gide.

Western intellectual Islamologists have totally failed in their duties as intellectuals. They have betrayed their calling by abandoning their critical faculties when it comes to Islam.

The pathology of Western intellectuals has committed them to an adversarial relationship with to the very culture that has produced both the greatest liberation from want, ignorance and superstition and the greatest increase of bounty and opportunity in human history. No one has explained the origin and development of that intellectual pathology adequately. Though it constitutes one of the deepest flaws and and tragedies of our society. It is a pathology that with each passing decade becomes ever coarser, more crude and more detached from any principle of reality. That pathology allows Western intellectuals to step around the Everest of bodies of the victims of communism with without a tear, an act of contrition or a reevaluation of self, soul and mind.

Given their unusual privilege, Western intellectuals can realistically accomplish a great deal. The limits are imposed by will more than objective circumstances. And about human will predictions are without value.