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 on the society. Like in Eastern Europe, they were treated very badly. In Latin America, they were slaughtered.
Noam ChomskyIceland is capitalist social democratic, rather like the Nordic countries generally. The capital had a mayor who is an anarchist, but the city has been nothing like that. In fact a few years ago it was super-neoliberal, which led to the crash.
Noam ChomskyIn the academic world, most of the work that is done is clerical. A lot of the work done by professors is routine.
Noam ChomskyOn October 15, 1965, an estimated 70,000 people took part in large-scale anti-war demonstrations.
Noam Chomsky