According 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
