Able Quote by 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

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

Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.

— Noam Chomsky

The central fact for me is, I think, that the [role of the] intellectual... cannot be played without a sense of being someone whose…

— Edward Said

A public role endures for the literary high-command, as sages and seers, speaking out on social and political issues.

— Tibor Fischer

“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

Whenever there is injustice, oppression, aggression, violence, it's standard for it to be supported by those we now call "intellectuals," but typically not by…

— Noam Chomsky

There was a time when intellectual meant someone who uses reason and intellect. Today, people who call themselves intellectuals are in a form of…

— Bill Whittle

The intellectual is an individual with a specific public role in society that cannot be reduced simply to . . a faceless professional.

— Noam Chomsky

I think it's the responsibility of every human being, not just those who wear the identity of poet, activist, voter, religious person... it's the…

— John Trudell

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

— Noam Chomsky

“But the secret of intellectual excellence is the spirit of criticism ; it is intellectual independence. And this leads to difficulties which must prove…

— Karl R. Popper