"If by 'intellectual' you mean people who are……" — Noam Chomsky
"If by 'intellectual' you mean people who are a special class who are in the business of imposing thoughts and forming ideas for people in power, and telling people what they should believe...they're really more a kind of secular priesthood, whose task it is to uphold the doctrinal truths of the society. And the population SHOULD be anti-intellectual in that repect."
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588 Quotes by Noam Chomsky
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The Bible is one of the most genocidal books in history.
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I see litter as part of a long continuum of anti-social behaviour.
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