The reason that academic politics is so vicious is that the stakes are so small.
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Mentioned as an "old saw" in Teachers for Our Nation's Schools (1990) by John I. GoodladHenry Kissinger
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The reason that university politics is so vicious is that the stakes are so small.
Henry Kissinger
A vicious teacher is just a vicious teacher, as a vicious neighbor may happen to be. But a vicious mother - means that the whole world is vicious.
Simon Soloveychik
As the issues are greater than men ever sought to realize before, the recriminations will be fiercer and pride more desperately hurt. It may help to recall that many recognized before the bomb ever fell that the time had already come when we must learn to live in One World.
The stakes are immense, the task colossal, the time is short. But we may hope — we must hope — that man’s own creation, man’s own genius, will not destroy him. Scholars, indeed all men, must move forward in the faith of that philosopher who held that there is no problem the human reason can propound which the human reason cannot reason out.Albert Einstein
Through a vicious circle of pure reason skepsis itself becomes dogma.
Johann Georg Hamann
The Columbia faculty was not, of course, composed wholly of young skeptics and esthetes. By any count of academic noses, they were a small minority.
Whittaker Chambers
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