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Leo told me its dispute with one of the Leningrad sculptor.
- He said to me: "You as an intelligent person have to..." And I reply, "I am not intelligent. An intelligent man is a man poorly educated, and compassionate people. I am educated well and people are not compassionate".

Somehow Lev Gumilyov in conversation unflattering said about the intelligentsia, and the journalist said:
- Leo, how can You say that, You're an intelligent person!
And he answered:
Well, I'm intelligent - I have a profession, and I love the Motherland!

The modern world does not require hatred, he needs the good will, need harmony, cooperation and a much more kind of moral climate; I think that even the most common a little love and warmth is able to do miracles. I protect the modern world not because it is the world of the rich, but because this is the world of the poor, and in addition, the world of those who is in the middle between the millstones of capital and class hatred of the proletariat, those who in any way supports and retains much of human values. I don't know close to ten thousand of the richest people and cannot therefore judge them, but I judged that class, called the bourgeoisie, for which I rebuked in a rotten pessimism.
So I have a right in some measure to speak up for those whose vices I, of course, also don't close my eyes. The proletariat cannot replace this class, but maybe some way to join him. Proletarian culture does not exist, what would be a clever aesthetic program, nor was written. Just as there is no purely ethnographic, aristocratic or religious culture; all that remains in the culture, associated with medium layers with the so-called intelligentsia.

I don't believe in our intelligentsia, hypocritical, false, hysterical, ill-mannered, lying, do not believe even when it suffers and complains, for its oppressors come from its own bowels.

... intellectuals can love - and then she creates amazing works or not to love - and then she deflates. To fight she does not know. You need to fight for it.

In the works of V. I. Lenin, which I had to study in my youth, I never liked his attitude towards intellectuals. But closer to the age I realized he was right. The intelligentsia are unreliable. To rely on the proletariat. Intellectual - individually strong personality. But as a class it is loose shapeless education. Everyone has their own opinion and unwillingness to follow anyone else.

You educate your mind illuminated,
You the pure truth saw the light,
And gently embraced the people he loved,
And wisely your hate.

- Your opinion of the intelligentsia over the past year?
The only thing I can say is inescapable. This phenomenon cannot be much beauty in Russian life. And if slightly to move away from Moscow, so to speak, of political parties and to get in Torzhok or Kostroma - you will see the Russian intelligentsia. Absolutely indestructible tribe. While that is not necessarily the aristocracy by birth or nobility. <...> I am convinced that to be intellectual is to educate. I am convinced that childhood can limit children from rudeness, including from their own. It is much easier to prove, do not work.

I think today the intellectual ought to stay away from all toxic media that left, that right.

A fun alternative. To be enlightened or to shoot? The eternal question of the Russian intelligentsia.

Intellectual, after all- this is a man who first doubted, and is not shy about their doubts and statements of his point of view, and in any case, not a footman.

Stravinsky once said that the intelligentsia has no taste, since I try not to be intellectual.

An intellectual is not to pretend.

A nation that does not value intelligence is doomed. History of the Russian intelligentsia is the history of Russian thought.