Answers Quote by Noam Chomsky

“Traditional American intellectuals are, in a sense, increasingly reactionary, and quite often proudly (and perversely) ignorant of many of the truly significant intellectual accomplishments…

— John Brockman

I'm not saying that the Americans had the same impact as the Jesuits, but I do see them as a very specialized populace, even…

— Sergio Leone

Archbishop Romero of El Salvador was a member of the Salvadoran aristocracy. He could not have risen to the top of the church hierarchy…

— Michael Parenti

“My dad was a rebel. A half-destroyed history book hidden in his room, friends at his funeral I knew nothing about . . . a daughter…

— Kiera Cass

“For roughly thirty years, young people at Western schools and universities have been given the idea of a liberal education, without the substance of…

— Niall Ferguson

Many who later lost faith in Fidel Castro can remember how they once admired the man who needed just a dozen men to launch…

— Tom Gjelten

“You American intellectuals—you want so desperately to feel besieged and persecuted!”

— Günter Grass

Academic Marxists, with their elitist sense of superiority to popular taste, are the biggest snobs in America.

— Camille Paglia

They [intellectuals] coined most of the slogans that guided the butcheries of Bolshevism, Fascism, and Nazism. Intellectuals extolling the delights of murder, writers advocating…

— Ludwig von Mises

“Without acquainting me with the language or the literature or the oral family histories which my ancestors had loved, they volunteered to make me…

— Kurt Vonnegut

I don't know if I want White America to remember or fortoget that Jesus Christ was the first non-violent revolutionary.

— Neil Young

“There is no small irony here: An administration which flaunted its intellectual superiority and its superior academic credentials made the most critical of decisions…

— David Halberstam