There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings.

Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria.

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.

A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one.

A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death