Quotes & Sayings About Butler University

The modern university does not exist to teach alone ... It exists also to serve the democracy of which it is a product and an ornament ... The university rests on the public will and on public appreciation. — Nicholas Murray Butler

Priests are not men of the world; it is not intended that they should be; and a University training is the one best adapted to prevent their becoming so. — Samuel Butler

The principle of academic freedom is designed to make sure that powers outside the university, including government and corporations, are not able to control the curriculum or intervene in extra-mural speech. — Judith Butler

I was training to be a lawyer ... I was president of the law society at Glasgow University, and my bass guitarist was my secretary of my law society; the lead guitarist and writer worked at the law firm that I worked. — Gerard Butler