" As for snobbery, the intellectual raises himself above ordinary folk -- who still cling quixotically to standards, prejudices, and taboos -- by his thorough rejection of them. Unlike others, he is not a prisoner of his upbringing and cultural inheritance; and thus he proves the freedom of his spirit by the amorality of his conceptions. "

― Theodore Dalrymple , Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses