Coercion Quote by A. Bartlett Giamatti

For one, thing, the media are dominated by the irreligious. So are universities.

— Rodney Stark

While the universities are increasingly corporatized and militarized, their governing structures are becoming more authoritarian, faculty are being devalued as public intellectuals, students are…

— Henry Giroux

“Universities, he (William Dershowitz) says, have been absorbed into the commercial ethos. Instead of being intervals of freedom, they are breeding grounds for advancement.…

— David Brooks

Universities are less constrained by authority and rigid doctrine in the United States than in most other societies, to my knowledge.

— Noam Chomsky

The most ingenious men are now agreed, that [universities] are only nurseries of prejudice, corruption, barbarism, and pedantry.

— George Berkeley

In my experience at least, the large public universities do not fall behind in fostering creativity and independence; often the contrary.

— Noam Chomsky

Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

— David Lodge

This is why universities, and civil society more generally, are so important for a democracy like ours, founded on a genuine idealism that we…

— Abhijit Banerjee

Universities are renowned for their tolerance of unusual characters, especially if they show originality and dedication to their research. I have often made the…

— Tony Attwood

Universities are meant to pass the torch of civilization.

— Hal Abelson

Universities are very clarifying places of power, because everyone is focused on trying to figure out exactly what to do with their lives.

— Frederick Lenz

I think universities are one of the great civilising forces of life.

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis