PrintAccording to a recent article in the New Yorker, the MTA decided to no longer outsource its quote search for its “Train of Thought” series to Columbia because professors have pushed for material deemed too sensitive. Here are some quotes, pulled completely out of context, that may have caused the MTA to question Columbia’s dedication to the Core Curriculum.
“People are like dirt.”
— Plato
“The best government is a benevolent tyranny tempered by an occasional assassination.”
— Voltaire
“Call no man unhappy until he is married.”
—Socrates
“Unquestionably, it is possible to do without happiness; it is done involuntarily by nineteen-twentieths of mankind.”
— John Stuart Mill
“Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly.”
— Thomas Hobbes
“Ah, women.”
— Friedrich Nietzsche