Academia Quote by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love; close enough on the surface but, to the non-sucker, not exactly the same thing.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Academia is to knowledge what prostitution is to love.

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

“Politics and prostitution have to be the only jobs where inexperience is considered a virtue. In what other profession would you brag about not…

— Tina Fey

“If prostitution is the oldest profession, then love is the world’s oldest problem, and it’s a dodgy sport.”

— Scott Parker

“We’ll have to devise another means of income.” “How?” “At this point, our swiftest and more reliable means of making money is prostitution.” “You–you…

— Claudia Gray

“Moralism and ignorance are responsible for the constant stereotyping of prostitutes by their lowest common denominator -- the sick, strung-out addicts, couched on city…

— Camille Paglia

“unmarried women make good academics because they’ve been neutered by too much knowledge and bookish pleasure. The world hands them a tiny domain it…

— Dominic Smith

“All unnatural unions which are not hallowed by love are prostitution.”

— Emma Goldman

“Since its appearance the view that prostitution is a product of capitalism has gained ground enormously. And as, in addition, preachers still complain that…

— Ludwig Von Mises

“It is folly to buy into the argument that prostitution empowers women. If anything, it imprisons them, and legalization will exploit even more women…

— Victor Malarek

“economics was largely a form of intellectual prostitution where you got rewarded for saying what the powers that be wanted to hear.”

— Max Tegmark

“Why do prostitutes when they get straight always try and get so prim? It's like long-repressed librarian-ambitions come flooding out.”

— David Foster Wallace