Anti-intellectualism … has been present in some form and degree in most societies; — Richard Hofstadter
To be confronted with a simple and unqualified evil is no doubt a kind of luxury…. — Richard Hofstadter
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr., in a mordant protest written soon after the [1952] election, — Richard Hofstadter
It is possible that the distinction between moral relativism and moral absolutism — Richard Hofstadter
The intellectual’s … playfulness, in its various manifestations, is likely to seem to — Richard Hofstadter
The tradition of the new. Yesterday’s avant-gard-experiment is today’s chic and tomorrow’s — Richard Hofstadter
The intellectual is engage-he is pledged, committed, enlisted. What everyone else is — Richard Hofstadter
It is a poor head that cannot find plausible reason for doing what the heart wants to do. — Richard Hofstadter
A university’s essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism – a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else. — Richard Hofstadter
It is ironic that the united states should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history — Richard Hofstadter
The delicate thing about the university is that it has a mixed character, that it is suspended between — Richard Hofstadter