Dangerous Quote by Maajid Nawaz

What the British seem to like are television historians and naturalists, not public intellectuals. You can't help feeling that's because one supplies narrative and…

— Will Self

Some of the most fundamental beliefs in our world view have evolved from British universities.

— Gavin Williamson

“Broadly speaking, affairs that were urgently political in Europe aroused only intellectual interest in Britain; while topics of intellectual concern on the Continent were…

— Tony Judt

“We who are here to-night are here as the servants of the guests of a great University, a University of knowledge, scholarship, and intellect.…

— Charles Williams

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

— Mandell Creighton

The most confident people in Britain are those who went to top public schools and Trotskyists.

— Harry Enfield

“Future historians, pondering changes in British society from the 1980s onwards, will struggle to account for the following curious fact. Although British business enterprises…

— Stefan Collini

“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

Even if a university should turn out to be another version of a school, I had decided I could lose myself afterwards as an…

— Patrick White

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

As a financial historian, I was quite isolated in Oxford - British historians are supposed to write about kings - so the quality of…

— Niall Ferguson

My parents didn't go to university and weren't brought up in England. They hadn't heard of any other universities other than 'Cambridge' or 'Oxford.'

— Richard Ayoade