Democracy Quote by Woodrow Wilson

This is why universities, and civil society more generally, are so important for a democracy like ours, founded on a genuine idealism that we…

— Abhijit Banerjee

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

— Andrew Adonis, Baron Adonis

“The universities of our time instead cultivate students so obsessed with their personal identities and campus pseudo-politics that they have much less interest in,…

— Mark Lilla

I love the idea of a university as away from capitalist values, where people can do things that don't immediately have to pay their…

— Alain de Botton

Universities in general and my university in particular really has to reach out and find ways to engage more with a broader array of…

— Mark Schlissel

A University should be a place of light, of liberty, and of learning.

— Benjamin Disraeli

The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.

— Anonymous

I was so grateful to be independent of the academic establishment. I thought, how awful it would be to have my future hinge on…

— Jane Jacobs

Universities are some of the few places left where a struggle for the commons, for public life, if not democracy itself, can be made…

— Henry Giroux

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

That a national university in this country is a thing to be desired, has always been my decided opinion

— Anonymous

We in universities are not in the democracy business. What we do, when we're doing it, is teach and learn.

— Stanley Fish