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An Intellectual May Be Defined As A Man Who Speaks With General Authority About A Subject On Which He Has No Particular Competence.

If God Does Not Exist, And If Religion Is An Illusion That The Majority Of Men Cannot Live Without ... Let Men Believe In The Lies Of Religion Since They Cannot Do Without Them, And Let Then A Handful Of Sages, Who Know The Truth And Can Live With It, Keep It Among Themselves. Men Are Then Divided Into The Wise And The Foolish, The Philosophers And The Common Men, And Atheism Becomes A Guarded, Esoteric Doctrine - For If The Illusions Of Religion Were To Be Discredited, There Is No Telling With What Madness Men Would Be Seized, With What Uncontrollable Anguish.

No Modern Nation Has Ever Constructed A Foreign Policy That Was Acceptable To Its Intellectuals

Anyone Who Knows Anything About Journalism Knows That Reporters Are Rarely In A Position To Investigate Anything. They Lack The Authority To Subpoena Witnesses, To Cross-examine, To Scrutinize Official Records. They Are Lucky To Get Their Phone Calls Returned.

If You Believe That No One Was Ever Corrupted By A Book, You Have Also To Believe That No One Was Ever Improved By A Book.