America Quote by Susan Sontag

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

There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results.

— Will Self

The difference between western and eastern intellectuals is that the former have not been kicked in the ass enough.

— Witold Gombrowicz

The difference between western and eastern intellectuals is that the former has not been kicked in the ass enough.

— Witold Gombrowicz

Intellectuals advertise their superiority to political practice but are absolutely in its thrall. It is no accident that Marxist theory and practice use the…

— Allan Bloom

Americans are in serious intellectual trouble - in danger of losing our hard-won cultural capital to a virulent mixture of anti-intellectualism, anti-rationalism and low…

— Susan Jacoby

Look at the great tradition of Western political philosophy. Those people were all immersed in revolutionary movements. Most weren't career academics - often, they…

— Martha Nussbaum

Many intellectuals in America and in Europe, they are in the habit of taking sides: who are the bad guys? who are the good…

— Amos Oz

Intellectuals cannot be good revolutionaries; they are just good enough to be assassins.

— Jean-Paul Sartre

“As a consequence, the heartland of America, filled with people who are often fundamentalist in religion, nativist in prejudice, isolationist in foreign policy, and…

— Richard Hofstadter

“Intellectuals are rebels, not revolutionaries.”

— César Vallejo

“Traditional American intellectuals are, in a sense, increasingly reactionary, and quite often proudly (and perversely) ignorant of many of the truly significant intellectual accomplishments…

— John Brockman