We have so few unaffiliated public intellectuals now…

Intellectuals are people who go to study things other people do naturally.

— Bill Cosby

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.

— Gerald Brenan

Intellectuals are people who manage the world in their head. They look at life and try to see some kind of truth, and if…

— Yair Lapid

I reached the age of 70, because I have cultivated an association of multicultural intellectuals who are informed and alert to whatever "tricknology" that's…

— Ishmael Reed

One of the categories of people I don't like much are intellectuals. People say, 'Oh, you're an intellectual,' and I say, 'No!' What is…

— Paul Johnson

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

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

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

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

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

“Breakdown of religious affiliation in the United States Christians: 78 percent Unaffiliated: 16 Muslims, Hindus, Folk religion, other: 3* Jews: 2 Buddhists 1 *all less than 1 percent”

— Anonymous

These self-anointed intellectuals are people who think that those who believe in God and Jesus Christ, those who 'cling to their guns and their…

— Burt Prelutsky

Ajamu Baraka comes out of the tradition of the African-American intellectuals, the people who really been standing up for African-American rights and economic rights…

— Jill Stein