Barbarism Quote by George Berkeley

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

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

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 are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.

— Anonymous

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

The universities are a sort of lunatic asylum for keeping young men out of mischief.

— Mandell Creighton

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

— David Lodge

For decades, universities have nurtured the most lunatic forms of feminism, denying the biological differences between males and females, promoting the idea that Western…

— Heather Mac Donald

Real men study law and engineering, while ideas and values are for sissies. The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the…

— Terry Eagleton

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

— Noam Chomsky

“What we have witnessed in our own time is the death of universities as centres of critique. Since Margaret Thatcher, the role of academia…

— Terry Eagleton

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Universities are of course hostile to geniuses, which, seeing and using ways of their own, discredit the routine: as churches and monasteries persecute youthful…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson