Public intellectuals come from a range of areas and use…

“As things stand the "intellectuals" only come out to lick the bones left over by the tyrant.”

— Nilantha Ilangamuwa

The job of intellectuals is to come up with ideas, and all we've been producing is footnotes.

— Theodore White

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

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 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

The beam in our own eye is harder to detect, although - or more accurately because - to detect it, and remove it, is…

— Noam Chomsky

I strongly discourage any intellectuals, regardless of race, from speaking on matters for which they have limited or no expertise.

— Carl Hart

We live in a country where posting 'Let's riot or something bruv!' on Facebook will get you a couple of years in prison, while…

— Frankie Boyle

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

— Sam Harris

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

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