Famous quotes containing the words state and/or university:
“The superficiality of the American is the result of his hustling. It needs leisure to think things out; it needs leisure to mature. People in a hurry cannot think, cannot grow, nor can they decay. They are preserved in a state of perpetual puerility.”
—Eric Hoffer (1902–1983)
“The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.”
—Allan Bloom (1930–1992)