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The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

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Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and…
We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are called heroes.
Freedom of inquiry, freedom of discussion, and freedom of teaching - without these a university cannot exist.
Every act of every man is a moral act, to be tested by moral, and not by economic criteria.
America's experiment with government of the people, by the people, and for the people depends not only on constitutional structure and organization…
The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as…
A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death
There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.
Nature will not forgive those who fail to fulfill the law of their being. The law of human beings is wisdom and…
Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.
...the fullest development of the highest powers of men can be achieved only in a world of peace.
Too few have the courage of my convictions.

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In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness. — Samuel Beckett
There are so many issues in our oceans - like the near extinction of blue fin tuna - that should be taken… — Heston Blumenthal
Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. ... Everything science has taught me-and continues to teach me-strengthens my belief… — Wernher von Braun
The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without… — Joseph de Maistre
Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long… — Jean Dubuffet
EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state. — Ambrose Bierce
It is even harder to realize that this present universe has evolved from an unspeakably unfamiliar early condition, and faces a future… — Steven Weinberg
[Man] ... his origin, his growth, his hopes and fears, his loves and his beliefs are but the outcome of accidental collocations… — Bertrand Russell
The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long survive the… — Samuel Adams
Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress. — Stephen Jay Gould
He who refuses to learn deserves extinction. — Hillel the Elder
I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to… — Abraham Lincoln

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