“I had my yob periods. Nothing violent but certainly loutish. I think it's frustrated intelligence. Imagine that if you were really intelligent and everyone treated you as though you were stupid and no one tried to teach you anything -- the sort of deep subliminal rage that would get going in you. But then once it gets going, you make a strength out of what you know is your weakness, which is that you are undeveloped.” IfsThinkingKnowsTeachImagineStupidPeriodsWeaknessIntelligentRageViolentTreatedImagine ThatFrustratedSubliminal Author:Martin Amis
“We can't say what God is, and until the modern period, Jewish, Christian, and Muslim theologians in the three God religions all knew that. They insisted that we have no idea what we meant when we said that God was good, or wise, or intelligent.” SaidIdeasChristianThreeWiseModernPeriodsIntelligentNo IdeaTheologian Author:Karen Armstrong
“Jonathan Coe's genial, likeable novel can only be described as a kind of lit-prog-rock concept album... Coe recreates the period with such loving accuracy that I frankly suspect him of having planted a secret microphone in the tin Oxford Mathematical Instruments box I carried around in my school days... As always with Jonathan Coe, the sheer intelligent good nature that suffuses his work makes it a pleasure to read.” KindSchoolPleasureSecretNovelRocksPeriodsConceptsIntelligentInstrumentsAlbumsBoxesMathematicalSuspectsSheerLitAccuracyOxfordMicrophonesTinGood NatureLikeableSchool Days Author:Peter Bradshaw
“.. the most intelligent defender of capitalism in the modern period is Friedrich Hayek.” ModernPeriodsCapitalismIntelligentDefendersHayekFriedrich Hayek Author:Irving Kristol