Ability Quote by Chris Hedges

“It is not so evident why intellectuals need the State. Put simply, we may state that the intellectual’s livelihood in the free market is…

— Murray N. Rothbard

“I was utterly convinced that an intellectual could never be anything but an intellectual, was simply not capable of being anything else, that his…

— Leonid Borodin

“People are called intellectuals because they're privileged. It's not because they're smart or they know a lot. There are plenty of people who know…

— Noam Chomsky

Intellectuals are not defined according to the jobs they do, but by the manner in which they act, the way they see themselves, and…

— Frank Furedi

I think such an inquiry will reveal a rather different picture: namely, it will reveal a very strong tendency for the intellectuals who are…

— Noam Chomsky

“Being an intellectual among intellectuals means nothing. There must be more.”

— Darnell Lamont Walker

The respected intellectuals are those who conform and serve power interests.

— Noam Chomsky

Intellectuals are hindered on the way to being, by their narcissism.

— Erich Fromm

The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human…

— Charles A. Reich

“The intellectual is an individual endowed with a faculty for representing, embodying, articulating a message, a view, an attitude, philosophy or opinion to, as…

— Edward W. Said

The crucial fact to realize about all the powerful machinery of the Corporate State - its laws, structure, political system - is that it…

— Charles A. Reich

The intellectual activity of those without power is always characterized as non-intellectual.

— Paulo Freire