"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."

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Richard Hofstadter

#Character Quotes #Criticism Quotes #Inquiry Quotes

“To live; to love; to learn; and to leave a legacy.”
“Zen is a special transmission outside the scriptures,With no reliance on words and letters.A direct pointing to the human mind,And the realization of enlightenment.”

Source : Robert Linssen (1958). “Living Zen”
“I write out of defiance.”
“I think he will probably come round in time, I mean to renew the subject pretty often.”
“Even when laws have been written down, they ought not always to remain unaltered.”
“The city an epitome of the social world. All the belts of civilization intersect along its avenues. It contains the products of every moral zone. It is cosmopolitan, not only in a national, but a spiritual sense.”
“Attack another's rights and you destroy your own.”

Source : John Jay Chapman (1970). “The Collected Works of John Jay Chapman: Political journalism”
“The purpose of anthropology is to make the world safe for human differences.”

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