"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
Topic(s):
Death
More From Robert M. Hutchins
- "The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives."
- "A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals."
- "The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness."
More In Death
- "You know Americans are obsessed with life and death and rebirth, that’s the American Cycle. You know, awakening, tragic, horrible death and then Phoenix rising from the ashes. That’s the American story, again and again."― Billy Corgan
- "Of all the gods only death does not desire gifts."― Aeschylus
- "Life and death are important. Don’t suffer them in vain."― Bodhidharma