Ahab Quote by 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

The people who were honored in the Bible were the false prophets. It was the ones we call the prophets who were jailed and…

— Noam Chomsky

Most of intellectuals are false prophets, flatterers of the court. The real prophets are the exception and treated badly. How badly they're treated depends…

— Noam Chomsky

“As we see from the Scriptures, it had become a common and proverbial expression that if someone wanted to refer to a prophet, he…

— Martin Luther

The prophet himself stands under the judgment which he preaches. If he does not know that, he is a false prophet.

— Reinhold Niebuhr

“Prophet: “A Greek word meaning “advocate”.”

— Kathy Robertson

In science we don't have prophets. We have heroes, but not prophets.

— Steven Weinberg

“A prophet is not a prophet to everyone in every place; he or she is a prophet to someone in some place.”

— Dan McCollam

All of the great prophets of modern times have come from the desert and were uneducated: Mohammed, Jesus and myself.

— Muammar al-Gaddafi

A prophet is not without honor except in his own country among his own people.

— Sun Ra

A prophet is always much wider than his followers, much more liberal than those who label themselves with his name.

— Annie Besant

I am not a prophet.

— Jose Saramago