"The death of democracy is not likely to……" — Robert M. Hutchins
"The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment."
—
Robert M. Hutchins
★
★
★
★
★
0.0 avg (0 ratings)
35 Quotes by Robert M. Hutchins
Robert M. Hutchins has 35 quotes on this site.
A few more worth reading:
-
Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as…
-
We call Japanese soldiers fanatics when they die rather than surrender, whereas American soldiers who do the same thing are…
-
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…
-
The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which…
-
A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and…
-
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…
-
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.
See all 35 quotes by Robert M. Hutchins »
More Ambush Quotes
This quote is filed under Ambush Quotes,
one of 33 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
-
Birds rising in flight is a sign that the enemy is lying in ambush; when the wild animals are startled…
— Sun Tzu
-
In tennis the addict moves about a hard rectangle and seeks to ambush a fuzzy ball with a modified snow-shoe.
— Elliott Chaze
-
This is crazier and louder than I was prepared for. With every week, the fervour and anticipation seem to grow.…
— Robert Pattinson
-
"Godling? Demigod?" Lysis nearly howled. "You'd be beaten black and blue in Thebes, and staked out overnight for claims like…
— Janet Morris
-
Accidents ambush the unsuspecting, often violently, just like love.
— Andrew Davidson
-
I think theater ought to be theatrical ... you know, shuffling the pack in different ways so that it's --…
— Tom Stoppard
-
There is not one thing we can do to fix the problem, it has to be an ambush!
— Jamie Oliver
-
There ambush here relentless ruffians lay, And here the fell attorney prowls for prey.
— Samuel Johnson
-
Those who today murdered our people in an ambush not only plotted to murder some Jews but intended to provoke…
— David Ben-Gurion
-
Some fell by laudanum, and some by steel, and death in ambush lay in every pill.
— Samuel Garth
-
What would things been like [in Russia] if during periods of mass arrests people had not simply sat there, paling…
— Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
-
Ideally a painter (and, generally, an artist) should not become conscious of his insights: without taking the detour through his…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
See all 33 Ambush Quotes »