The task of the intellectual is to challenge the assumptions... - Quentin Skinner

"The task of the intellectual is to challenge the assumptions that the powerful wish to keep hidden."

Quentin Skinner Leadership

Historian Philosopher British Born 1940 (age 86)

More from Quentin Skinner

"The past is not dead; it is not even past."

"Ideas have consequences, and the historian's task is to trace them."

"We must understand the languages in which the past speaks to us."

"The study of history is the study of human possibility."

"A leader must be fair and just."

"Integrity is everything."

"One must take responsibility for one's environment."

"In this house, I make the decisions"