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

— Yair Lapid

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

— Bill Cosby

“Intellectuals are a pretty unique species all by themselves, given to advocating things out of sheer brazenness that they could not themselves stomach if…

— Matthew Scully

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

The "intellectuals" will always have problems, because they always need to "know." They're often the most spiritually bankrupt people, because they never let go;…

— George Harrison

That is [Edward Said] proposal as to how the term should be used. It surely does not describe those who are called "intellectuals" in…

— Noam Chomsky

Intellectuals of the categories happen to enjoy unusual privilege, unique in history, I suppose. It's easy enough to find ugly illustrations of repression, malice,…

— Noam Chomsky

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

— Darnell Lamont Walker

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

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

— Noam Chomsky