Flip Quote by Will Self

The way in which a certain kind of political idealism has been discredited and scorned makes the danger not that intellectuals keep on making…

— Susan Sontag

Public intellectuals come from a range of areas and use their expertise to comment more widely than just their field. They want to make…

— Susie Orbach

Intellectuals are in a position to expose the lies of governments, to analyze actions according to their causes and motives and often hidden intentions.

— Noam Chomsky

Intellectuals try to keep going. But their situation is very difficult. Those who have had the courage to voice their opposition have often paid…

— Tahar Ben Jelloun

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

I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed; but to…

— Michael Eric Dyson

The majority must be persuaded by ideology that their government is good, wise and, at least, inevitable, and certainly better than other conceivable alternatives.…

— Murray Rothbard

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

One of the surprising privileges of intellectuals is that they are free to be scandalously asinine without harming their reputations.

— Eric Hoffer

Currently intellectuals in Western Europe and North America are extremely demoralized and shaken by the rise of a virulent conservative tendency (which some have…

— Susan Sontag

“For this essential acceptance, the majority must be persuaded by ideology that their government is good, wise and, at least, inevitable, and certainly better…

— Murray N. Rothbard

“Anti-intellectualism has long been the anti-Semitism of the businessman," by which he meant that those at the top of the heap use intellectuals as…

— Anonymous