Universities Quotes
- Page 2Our most widely known scholars have been trained in universities outside of the South.
Carter G. Woodson
Already this war on gangs in California is taking money from universities to build prisons, and the universities have some clout.
Tom Hayden
Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.
Kingman Brewster, Jr.
Our combination of great research universities, a pro-risk business culture, deep pools of innovation-seeking equity capital and reliable business and contract law is unprecedented and unparalleled in the world.
Marc Andreessen
The universities have got a job here as well in making sure that people actually understand that we're open for university students coming into the U.K. There's a job here not just for the government, I think there's a job for the universities as well to make sure that people know that we are open.
Theresa May
Typically, historical black colleges and universities like Delaware State, attracted students who were raised in an environment where going to college wasn't the next natural step after high school.
Michael N. Castle
Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.
David Lodge
Historically Black Colleges and Universities, or HBCUs, have played an important role in enriching the lives of not just African Americans, but our entire country.
Ric Keller
We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.
Stanley Fish
In the long run, much public opinion is made in the universities; ideas generated there filter down through the teaching profession and the students into the general public.
B. Carroll Reece
If written directions alone would suffice, libraries wouldn't need to have the rest of the universities attached.
Judith Martin
Our goal has been to more effectively promote the value of publicly-supported research at our universities, both to the Congress and to the general public.
Charles Vest
Highly educated young people are tutored, taught and monitored in all aspects of their lives, except the most important, which is character building. When it comes to this, most universities leave them alone.
David Brooks
Have not prisons - which kill all will and force of character in man, which enclose within their walls more vices than are met with on any other spot of the globe - always been universities of crime?
Peter Kropotkin
The American people are among the most productive in the world. We have the best technologies. We have great universities. We have entrepreneurs.
Ben Bernanke
Great research universities must insist on independence from government and on the exercise of academic freedom.
Alan Dershowitz
There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.
Robert M. Hutchins
I held a variety of jobs - most notably ten years working in universities - and kept on writing.
Thomas Perry
Education, in K-12, technical college and universities needs to be a top priority in Wisconsin.
Tom Barrett
The productivity now at universities is terrible. Tenure is a terrible idea. It keeps them around forever and they don't have to work hard.
Jack Welch
I bring other constituencies - I also have ties to minority communities. And obviously, to the world of world-class research universities. So I can bring some constituencies that I'm used to working with.
Donna Shalala
The chief role of the universities is to prolong adolescence into middle age, at which point early retirement ensures that we lack the means or the will to enforce significant change.
J. G. Ballard
After Big Media, U.S. colleges and universities are the biggest enemies of the values of red-state Americans.
Phyllis Schlafly