I consider him to be an intellectual pygmy.'

I consider him to be an intellectual pygmy.'

"The world cannot continue to wage war like physical giants and to seek peace like intellectual pygmies."

Unfortunately the people who govern us are intellectual pygmies and 100% owned by global corporations so no chance of this happening without decades of slaughter.

Standing at the dispatch box, the towering superiority of his brain makes intellectual pygmies of his opponents .

Bryce wrote scathingly of the cheerful willingness of the 19th-century parties to select as their Presidential candidates men who were "intellectual pygmies," so long as they had appeal to voters.

Embittered by his vision of his future and indifferent to his education, he has taxed the patience of his schoolteacher to the point where she calls him a "self-opinionated intellectual pygmy."

For, in emptying Labour's cupboard of skeletons and scattering the bones across Parliament Square, Lord Mandelson has confirmed long-held suspicions: the last government was a bunch of moral bankrupts and intellectual pygmies.

Summarizing his thoughts on why intellectual pygmies so often won the Presidency, while giants and leaders like Clay, Calhoun and Webster were never able to make it to the White House, Bryce found part of the answer in the fact that the country's great men were cut down by the political process.