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Intellectual Quotes by Noam Chomsky
- The intellectual tradition is one of servility to power, and if I didn't betray it I'd be ashamed of myself.
- I don't like the intellectual label.
- Prophet just means intellectual. They were people giving geopolitical analysis, moral lessons, that sort of thing. We call them intellectuals today. There were the people…
- It is only in folk tales, children's stories, and the journals of intellectual opinion that power is used wisely and well to destroy evil. The…
- Citizens of the democratic societies should undertake a course of intellectual self defense to protect themselves from manipulation and control, and to lay the basis…
- Moral cowardice and intellectual corruption are the natural concomitants of unchallenged privilege.
- You don't get to be a respected intellectual by uttering truisms in monosyllables.
- My intellectual achievement was retarded when I went to high school. I sort of sank into a black hole because I had to go to…
- There are few genuine conservatives within the U.S. political system, and it is a sign of the intellectual corruption of the age that the honorable…
- If by 'intellectual' you mean people who are a special class who are in the business of imposing thoughts and forming ideas for people in…
- French intellectual life has, in my opinion, been turned into something cheap and meretricious by the 'star' system. It is like Hollywood. Thus we go…
- You don't have any other society where the educated classes are so effectively indoctrinated and controlled by a subtle propaganda system - a private system…
- I have known people who are working class or craftsmen, who happen to be more intellectual than professors.
More Intellectual Quotes
- It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest… — David Attenborough
- Indian religion has always felt that since the minds, the temperaments and the intellectual affinities of men are unlimited in their variety,… — Sri Aurobindo
- Strategic thinkers were naturally rattled to find this outsider fooling around with their work. They had been thinking strategically when Reagan was… — Russell Baker
- Thought is a key to all treasures; the miser's gains are ours without his cares. Thus I have soared above this world,… — Honore de Balzac
- The colour of the skin is in no way connected with strength of the mind or intellectual powers. — Benjamin Banneker
- Liberty, according to my metaphysics is a self-determining power in an intellectual agent. It implies thought and choice and power. — John Adams
- Intellectual despair results in neither weakness nor dreams, but in violence. It is only a matter of knowing how to give vent… — Georges Bataille
- It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. — Pierre Beaumarchais
- My parents have been there for me, ever since I was about 7. — David Beckham
- The philosophy of one century is the common sense of the next. — Henry Ward Beecher
- In the old days, you would have one lawyer to handle everything: speeding tickets, buying a house, contracts, litigation, real estate, copyrights,… — James Belushi
- It's a sign of mediocrity when you demonstrate gratitude with moderation. — Roberto Benigni