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Universities are the cathedrals of the modern age. They shouldn't have to justify their existence by utilitarian criteria.

American critics are like American universities. They both have dull and half-dead faculties.

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

A university's essential character is that of being a center of free inquiry and criticism - a thing not to be sacrificed for anything else.

If you look at America, one of the great strengths of America is its university towns and the way a lot of their businesses and a lot of their innovation and enormous economic growth have come from reducing that gap, getting those universities directly involved in start-up businesses, green field businesses, new development businesses.

Universities are basically socialist institutions.

Yeah, but now suddenly - you know, universities are notoriously market oriented, too.

American colleges are now increasingly reflexive in maintaining politically correct dialogue over controversy, and some say universities have lost sight of education's ultimate purpose.

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 way. It's like a monastery in a way, and that beautiful refuge has been destroyed by dogma about what this stuff is for.

Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.