America Quote by Noam Chomsky

There is a principle of human affairs that goes back millennia, which is that you don't look in the mirror. You can trace this…

— Noam Chomsky

The "prophets" were what we would call dissident intellectuals. They provided critical geopolitical analysis, condemned the crimes of the powerful, called for justice and…

— 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

Intellectuals are people who manage the world in their head. They look at life and try to see some kind of truth, and if…

— Yair Lapid

Intellectuals are real and actuals who speak first to bare open and bring fore the burning matters factual before others can speak up and…

— Anuj Somany

Prophet just means intellectual. They were people giving geopolitical analysis, moral lessons, that sort of thing. We call them intellectuals today. There were the…

— Noam Chomsky

Intellectuals are judged not by their morals, but by the quality of their ideas, which are rarely reducible to simple verdicts of truth or…

— Perry Anderson

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

Intellectuals range through the finest gradations of kind and quality: from those who are merely educated neurotics, usually with strong hidden reactionary tendencies, through…

— Louise Bogan

Intellectuals are people who believe that ideas are of more importance than values. That is to say, their own ideas and other people's values.

— Gerald Brenan

Intellectuals are people who go to study things other people do naturally.

— Bill Cosby

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

— Noam Chomsky