We live in a country where posting 'Let's riot or…

I would think Trump would feel free to bomb Syria any time he wanted. Nobody clearly seems to care very much about if we…

— Seymour Hersh

These anti-public intellectuals are part of a disimagination machine that solidifies the power of the rich and the structures of the military-industrial-surveillance-academic complex by…

— Henry Giroux

The United States has degenerated into a social order that is awash in public stupidity and views critical thought as both a liability and…

— Henry Giroux

It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum.

— Sam Harris

What the British seem to like are television historians and naturalists, not public intellectuals. You can't help feeling that's because one supplies narrative and…

— Will Self

Public intellectuals come from a range of areas and use their expertise to comment more widely than just their field. They want to make…

— Susie Orbach

Public intellectuals are often put in the position of having their words, no matter how off-the-cuff, treated as doctrine.

— Roxane Gay

We have so few unaffiliated public intellectuals now - people who are not beholden to a think tank, corporate-owned media, or academic department -…

— Pankaj Mishra

I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed; but to…

— Michael Eric Dyson

I think I'll always be a better playwright than a pundit, but I believe that writers should be public intellectuals and that theater, even…

— Tony Kushner

There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results.

— Will Self

Public values are not only under attack in the United States and elsewhere but appear to have become irrelevant just as those spaces that…

— Henry Giroux

I hadn't worked for a year when I had my Prison Break audition and it was the easiest audition I've ever had. I got…

— Wentworth Miller

I hope that the Palestinians don't make the mistake of unleashing a new intifada. They've tried it twice before, and the consequences were bad…

— Tom Segev

Humanitarian goods and people must flow in both directions. Gaza cannot and must not be allowed to remain a prison camp.

— David Cameron