Blackboard Quote by Richard M. Nixon

The press is the enemy.

— Richard M. Nixon

Whenever the cause of the people is entrusted to professors, it is lost.

— Anonymous

We are not shooting enough professors

— Vladimir Lenin

“how foolish I was ever to have thought that professors were intellectual giants. They’re people—and afraid the rest of the world will find out.”

— Daniel Keyes

Flaws and all, I believe the free press is our country's most important institution - one I am more than happy to defend. One…

— William H. McRaven

“. . . the press and the pulpit have in every age and every nation been on the side of the exploiting class and the ruling class.”

— Eugene V. Debs

“The reason that university politics is so vicious is because stakes are so small”

— Henry Kissinger

“A press governed solely by the desire to avoid all critical news that might reflect negatively upon dominant class interests reveals itself as an…

— Michael Parenti

“The institutionalization of the radical ethos in the academy has brought with it not only an increasing politicization of the humanities, but also an…

— Roger Kimball

“it is easy to see that history is truly written by losers with time on their hands and a protected academic position.”

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

The press is our chief ideological weapon.

— Nikita Khrushchev

Many faculty retreated into academic specializations and an arcane language that made them irrelevant to the task of defending the university as a public…

— Henry Giroux