“"There is nothing," says a correspondent of the New York Times, "which the business world discards as unpractical and useless so much as the quiet, thinking scholar. But this is the man who makes revolutions. Politicians are mere puppets in the hands of men of thought.” ThinkingMenWorldHandsNew YorkHe ManRevolutionPoliticianQuietMereUselessScholarNew York TimesPuppetsBusiness World Author:Christian Nestell Bovee
“Education must be taken out of the hands of rich illiterates, third rate politicians, and put where it belongs: in the care of scholars. At present the whole University system is rotten to the core, and an appalling waste of time, energy and money.” WholeHandsCareEnergyEducationRichTakenPoliticianWasteThirdsRateUniversityCoreWasting TimeScholarRotten Book:Letters of Katherine Anne Porter Source: Letters of Katherine Anne Porter
“The John F. Kennedy Institute of Politics was originally intended to bring scholars and politicians into closer contact, on the assumption that other office-holders can use academics as profitably as Kennedy did during his political career.” UsePoliticalCareersPoliticianOfficeContactAssumptionScholarInstitute Author:Donald E. Graham
“Scholars who become politicians are usually assigned the comic role of having to be the good conscience of state policy.” StatesRolesPolicyPoliticianConscienceComicScholar Author:Friedrich Nietzsche
“For nearly two centuries, scholars and politicians have debated the future of capitalism. Its critics, most prominent among them Karl Marx, have seen capitalism as intrinsically unstable, full of contradictions that will lead eventually to its collapse. Its supporters see it as the best way to allocate resources and rewards. Some even hint that the democratic capitalistic society is not just a phase in the historical evolution of economic systems but its ultimate end.” WayTwoEndsEconomicCenturyEvolutionPoliticianCapitalismResourcesUltimateHistoricalDemocraticCriticsRewardsBest WayContradictionScholarCollapsePhasesSupporterHintsUnstableProminentEconomic Systems Author:Raghuram Rajan
“Get power but don't admit to it. Do it by stealth. There's a whole trend of Rhodes scholars who will be politicians around the world.” WorldWholePoliticianAround The WorldTrendsScholarStealth Author:Mel Gibson
“A 1998 study was done in Hebrew by an Israeli scholar, Yosef Grodzinsky, and the English translation of the title is Good Human Material. That's what they wanted sent to Palestine for colonization and for the eventual conflict that took place some years later. These policies were somewhat complementary to the U.S. policy of pressuring England to allow Jews to go to Palestine, but not allowing them here. The British politician Ernest Bevin was quite bitter about it, asking, "if you want to save the Jews, why send them to Palestine when you don't admit them?"” IfsWantYearsHumansDoneWantedStudyPolicyMaterialsPoliticianConflictEnglandAskingJewBritishBitterTitlesAllowingScholarPalestineTranslationsIsraeliHebrewColonizationComplementary Author:Noam Chomsky