“If you become indignant, this elevates you to the plane of 'intellectual.' No mental activity is required. It is a rule, to which there has never been an exception, that when an actor or a television performer rises up to the microphone at one of these awards ceremonies and expresses moral indignati…”— Tom Wolfe, 101bananas.com
“College is corrupt as the Catholic church was 500 years ago. They’re charging people more and more. You have this system of indulgences, you have this priestly (professorial class) that doesn't do much work. And then you basically tell people that if you get a diploma you’re saved, otherwise you go…”— Peter Thiel, bloomberg.com