Conformist Quote by Noam Chomsky

“National Review's premise was that conformity was especially egregious among the intellectuals, that herd of independent minds.”

— George will

Where intellectuals have played a role in history, it has not been so much by whispering words of advice into the ears of political…

— Thomas Sowell

We are all so to speak intellectuals about something.

— Randall Jarrell

The intellectual is called on the carpet... Don't you conceal something? You talk a language which is suspect. You don't talk like the rest…

— Herbert Marcuse

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

“[...] intellectualism (as understood by Fascists) divocers thought from action, science from life, the brain from the heart, and theory from practice. It is…

— Giovanni Gentile

We must admit that today conformity is on the Left. To be sure, the Right is not brilliant. But the Left is in complete…

— Albert Camus

It is ironic that the United States should have been founded by intellectuals, for throughout most of our political history, the intellectual has been…

— Richard Hofstadter

“To those who suspect that intellect is a subversive force in society, it will not do to reply that intellect is really a safe,…

— Richard Hofstadter

The task of the intellectual is not one of blending into the opaque consciousness of the tumultuous mob around him, his voice drowned in…

— Sanusi Lamido Sanusi

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

“Intellectual activity in a culture is not a one-way flow between the great minds and passive recipients; it is a discourse, a complex marketplace-like…

— Gordon S. Wood