It Is A Poor Head That Cannot

Anti-intellectualism ... Has Been Present In Some Form And Degree In Most Societies; In One It Takes The Form Of The Administering Of Hemlock, In Another Of Town-and-gown Riots, In Another Of Censorship And Regimentation, In Still Another Of Congressional Investigations.

It Is Possible That The Distinction Between Moral Relativism And Moral Absolutism Has Sometimes Been Blurred Because An Excessively Consistent Practice Of Either Leads To The Same Practical Result — Ruthlessness In Political Life.

The Delicate Thing About The University Is That It Has A Mixed Character, That It Is Suspended Between Its Position In The Eternal World, With All Its Corruption And Evils And Cruelties, And The Splendid World Of Our Imagination.

The Utopia Of The Populists Was In The Past, Not In The Future. According To The Agrarian Myth, The Health Of The State Was Proportionate To The Degree To Which It Was Dominated By The Agricultural Class, And This Assumption Pointed To The Superiority Of An Earlier Age.

It Is A Part Of The Intellectual's Tragedy That The Things He Most Values About Himself And His Work Are Quite Unlike Those Society Values In Him.