intellectuals became preoccupied with an aspiration as…

Men are created different; they lose their social freedom and their individual autonomy in seeking to become like each other.

— David Riesman

The good news is that women's roles have changed so dramatically over the past three decades that women now expect to have careers, balance…

— Michael Kimmel

“The socialist submerging of the individual under the collective’s prerogative is a perverse and putrid vision for humanity.”

— A.E. Samaan

“Free speech is the guardian of individual autonomy, a shield that allows each person to shape their own beliefs and values independent of external…

— James William Steven Parker

The spontaneous reproduction of superimposed needs by the individual does not establish autonomy; it only testifies to the efficacy of the control.

— Herbert Marcuse

Science without religion is dangerous because it necessarily entails a mechanization of humanity and consequent loss of individual autonomy and spirituality. On the other…

— Masao Abe

Self-determination, the autonomy of the individual, asserts itself in the right to race his automobile, to handle his power tools, to buy a gun,…

— Herbert Marcuse

The political objective of universal capitalism is maximum individual autonomy, the separation of political power wielded by the holders of public office from economic…

— Louis O. Kelso

We face a conflict between civilisation and culture, which used to be on the same side. Civilisation means rational reflection, material wellbeing, individual autonomy…

— Terry Eagleton

Both Faith and Terror are instruments for the elimination of individual self-respect. Terror crushes the autonomy of self-respect, where Faith obtains its more or…

— Eric Hoffer

Writers and intellectuals have a duty to humanity. It is to insist that the human entity remains the primary asset in overall development; thus,…

— Wole Soyinka

The intellectuals' chief cause of anguish are one another's works. Jacques Barzun, 1959 all ignorance toboggans into know and trudges up to ignorance again.

— e. e. cummings

There was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For intellectuals would never be converted and would anyway always yield to the stronger,…

— Joseph Goebbels

“The passion with which native intellectuals defend the existence of their national culture may be a source of amazement; but those who condemn this…

— Frantz Fanon

“...he was one of the great intellectuals of the 1940s who completed their higher studies in the West and returned to their country to…

— Alaa Al Aswany