Almost every second Russian believes that there is no intellectual

[P_Anna]

Д.С. Likhachev wrote: "the intelligentsia, in my experience, belong only free people in their beliefs, regardless of economic compulsions, the party, the state, are not subject to ideological commitments.
The basic principle of intelligence - intellectual freedom - freedom as a moral category. Not free intelligent man only to their conscience and their thoughts... Conscience is not only the guardian angel of human honor, is steering his freedom, she takes care of that freedom into tyranny, but pointed to a man its a real way in the tangled circumstances of life, especially modern".