Damage Quote by H. L. Mencken Download Open image “Let's not burn the universities yet. After all, the damage they do might be worse.” — H. L. Mencken ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.5 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Damage Might
I think the universities as we know them will be dead in a future years. I'd like to see them replaced by something better,… — David Gelernter Copy Share Image
Our universities today are better equipped than ever, and the wars keep getting worse. — Jacque Fresco Copy Share Image
Education must be taken out of the hands of rich illiterates, third rate politicians, and put where it belongs: in the care of scholars.… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
The professors - working steadily and systematically - have destroyed the university as a center of learning and have desolated higher education, which no… — Charlie Sykes Copy Share Image
The problem is the for-profit colleges. These guys are absolute criminals. — John Layfield Copy Share Image
Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk… — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
“The fate of the humanities faculty in the burgeoning world of for-profit higher education is easy to predict, but painful to contemplate. Universities that,… — Frank Donoghue Copy Share Image
It would be foolish and wrong to ignore the fact that all our universities today tread a very dangerous path. Increasingly, they are accepting… — Vincent Massey Copy Share Image
There's a lot wrong [with American universities]. I'd remove 3/4 of the faculty - everything but the hard sciences. But nobody's going to do… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Violence or the threat of violence [must] never be permitted to influence the actions or judgments of the university community. Once it does, the… — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
My great project is to undo the moral and intellectual damage of most universities — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
A bad artist almost always tries to conceal his incompetence by whooping up a new formula. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
By profession a biologist, [Thomas Henry Huxley] covered in fact the whole field of the exact sciences, and then bulged through its four fences.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
So few men are really worth knowing, that it seems a shameful waste to let an anthropoid prejudice stand in the way of free… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Man's objection to love is that it dies hard; woman's, that when it is dead, it stays dead. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
For it is an absurdity to call a country civilized in which a decent and industrious man, laboriously mastering a trade which is valuble… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
The critic, to interpret his artist, even to understand his artist, must be able to get into the mind of his artist; he must… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There is, in fact, nothing about religious opinions that entitles them to any more respect than other opinions get. On the contrary, they tend… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Liberty ... was a two-headed boon. There was first, the liberty of the people as a whole to determine the forms of their own government, to levy their own taxes, and to make their own laws… There was second, the liberty of the individual man to live his own life, within the limits of decency and decorum, as he pleased… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share
A poet is wounded into speech, and he examines these wounds, meticulously, to discover how to heal them. The bad poet harangues at the… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
I think what bothers us about fighting sports isn't the damage to the athlete but the fact that you win by doing more harm… — Jonathan Gottschall Copy Share Image
I was told I had brain damage. I always knew it was an unfair label. Now I have a clearer understanding of what's wrong… — Susan Boyle Copy Share Image
How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most relationships and friendships, and damage… — Veronica Roth Copy Share Image
The miracle drugs (neuroleptics) cause the worst plague of brain damage in medical history. — Peter Breggin Copy Share Image
The socially redeeming aspect of golf lies in the vast number of lawyers and bankers and managers who play it, and when you think… — Garrison Keillor Copy Share Image
Gun control laws don't work. What is worse, they act perversely. While legitimate users of firearms encounter intense regulation, scrutiny and bureaucratic control, illicit markets easily adapt to whatever difficulties a free society throws in their way. Also, efforts to curtail the supply of firearms inflict collateral damage on freedom and privacy interests that have long been considered central to… — Daniel D. Polsby Copy Share
The pace of global warming is accelerating and the scale of the impact is devastating. The time for action is limited - we are… — Eliot Spitzer Copy Share Image
My first job was a film called 'Storm Damage' for the BBC. I was 16 and working with really respected British actors. I didn't… — Ashley Madekwe Copy Share Image
But people only die in proper duels, you know, with real wizards. The most you and Malfoy’ll be able to do is send sparks at each other. Neither of you knows enough magic to do any real damage. I bet he expected you to refuse, anyway.” “And what if I wave my wand and nothing happens?” “Throw it away and… — Anonymous Copy Share
President Obama has never summarized the Obama Doctrine with such clarity, but here is what it would look like: 'I will undertake any military… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
The superpowers often behave like two heavily armed blind men feeling their way around a room, each believing himself in mortal peril from the other, whom he assumes to have perfect vision. Each side should know that frequently uncertainty, compromise, and incoherence are the essence of policymaking. Yet each tends to ascribe to the other a consistency, foresight, and coherence… — Anonymous Copy Share
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