"Universities are not here to be mediums for……" — A. Bartlett Giamatti
"Universities are not here to be mediums for the coercion of other people, they're here to be mediums for the free exchange of ideas."
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37 Quotes by A. Bartlett Giamatti
A. Bartlett Giamatti has 37 quotes on this site.
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Teaching is an instinctual art, mindful of potential, craving of realizations, a pausing, seamless process.
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If a family is an expression of continuity through biology, a city is an expression of continuity through will amd…
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The banishment for life of Pete Rose from baseball is a sad end if a sorry episode. One of the…
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You count on it, you rely on it to buffer the passage of time, to keep the memory of sunshine…
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All I ever wanted to be president of was the American League.
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On matters of race, on matters of decency, baseball should lead the way.
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There's nothing bad that accrues from baseball.
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There are a lot of people who know me who can't understand for the life of them why I would…
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The gods have fled, I know. My sense is the gods have always been essentially absent. I do not believe…
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Far better to think historically, to remember the lessons of the past. Thus, far better to conceive of power as…
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The professionals must set a good example.
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As I grew up, I knew that as a building it was on the level of Mount Olympus, the Pyramid…
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More Coercion Quotes
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Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.
— Theodor Adorno
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The principle that human nature, in its psychological aspects, is nothing more than a product of history and given social…
— Noam Chomsky
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Society is held together by our need; we bind it together with legend, myth, coercion, fearing that without it we…
— James A. Baldwin
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The real triumph of civilization is the extent to which coercion is banished from human relations.
— Anthony Gregory
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History has witnessed the failure of many endeavors to impose peace by war, cooperation by coercion, unanimity by slaughtering dissidents....…
— Ludwig von Mises
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Millions of innocent men, women and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burnt, tortured, fined and imprisoned; yet…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Where the preamble declares, that coercion is a departure from the plan of the holy author of our religion, an…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Subject opinion to coercion: whom will you make your inquisitors? Fallible men; men governed by bad passions, by private as…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Justice, like liberty and coercion, is a concept which, for the sake of clarity, ought to be confined to the…
— Friedrich August von Hayek
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What is the basic, the essential, the crucial principle that differentiates freedom from slavery? It is the principle of voluntary…
— Ayn Rand
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Economic freedom is an essential requisite for political freedom. By enabling people to cooperate with one another without coercion or…
— Milton Friedman
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Fundamentally, there are only two ways of coordinating the economic activities of millions. One is central direction involving the use…
— Milton Friedman
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