I'm looking for the origin of the following quotation:
"In academia the politics are so fierce because the stakes are so
low."
I'm looking for that quotation or something similar. I've read other
versions such as: "Academic politics are the most vicious because
the stakes are so low" & "Academic politics are so nasty because the
stakes are so low".
I found an article from the April 27, 1996, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
which credits Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan with the "observation
about academic life - that the politics are so vicious because the
stakes are so low"; but, I think the statement might originally be
attributed to someone else.
I've checked the obvious sources available at our library such as:
-AND I QUOTE
-FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS (16th ed)
-BARTLETTS FAMILIAR QUOTATIONS (ON LINE)
-BARTLETTS UNFAMILAR QUOTATIONS
-COLUMBIA DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS
-OXFORD DICTIONARY OF QUOTATIONS
-OXFORD DICTIONARY OF MODERN QUOTATIONS
-THE MACMILLAN BOOK OF SOCIAL SCIENCE QUOTATIONS
-THE HOME BOOK OF PROVERBS MAXIMS AND FAMILIAR PHRASES
-MAGILLS QUOTATIONS IN CONTEXT
-RESPECTFULLY QUOTED
and a few others.
If anyone knows of a source which includes the origin of this quote,
I would appreaciate the help.
Thanks.
Vincent Moyer
REFERENCE LIBRARIAN
HASTINGS COLLEGE OF THE LAW
SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA
moyerv@uchastings.edu
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