Angela Blount’s Reviews > Anatomy of the State > Status Update

"The state, on the other hand, is willing to offer the intellectuals a secure and permanent birth in the state apparatus, and thus a secure income, and a panoply of prestige. For the intellectuals will be handsomely rewarded for the important function they perform for the state rulers--of which group, they now become a part."

"It is evident why the state needs intellectuals. It is not so evident why intellectuals need the state."

..."The intellectuals are, therefore, the opinion molders in society. And since it is precisely a molding of opinion that the state most desperately needs, the basis for age-old alliance between the state and the intellectuals becomes clear."

"For the masses of men do not create their own ideas, or indeed think through these ideas independently. They follow passively the ideas adopted and disseminated by the body of intellectuals." ...

"For this essential acceptance, the majority must be persuaded by ideology that their government is good, wise, and at least inevitable. And certainly better than other conceivable alternatives. Promoting this ideology among the people is the vital social task of the intellectuals."