Public Intellectuals Quotes
- Public intellectuals come from a range of areas and use their expertise to comment more widely than just their field. They want to make a… — Susie Orbach
- It is time that scientists and other public intellectuals observed that the contest between faith and reason is zero-sum. — Sam Harris
- 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 more… — 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 the… — 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 also… — Michael Eric Dyson
- Public intellectuals are often put in the position of having their words, no matter how off-the-cuff, treated as doctrine. — Roxane Gay