"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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Source : Great Books of the Western World vol. 1, ch. 10 (1952)

Robert M. Hutchins

#Freedom Quotes #Patriotic Quotes #Diversity Quotes

“Adjust my dreams for me.”
“No country can reach a high stage of civilization without a leisure class ...”
“The morning we left South Bend, every student and professor was out of bed long before breakfast and marched downtown accompanying the team to the railroad station. It was the first time I'd seen anything like this mass hysteria generated on the Notre Dame campus over a football game.”
“Instead of studying how to make it worth men's while to buy my baskets, I studied rather how to avoid the necessity of selling them.”
“It's really an interesting crazy world where like ultimately you have to work your ass off and sacrifice a lot in your life and the end goal is personal and financial gain. You know, it's not like you're doing anything helpful to the world. You're really just trying to get ahead and to beat out the next person and to be on top and at the very top of those financial firms, like the people that make the crazy amounts of money I mean that's what their after.”

Source : Source: collider.com
“This country is about, in my judgment, aggressive, open debate. There is an old saying: When everyone is thinking the same thing, no one is thinking very much.”
“It's in our own lives, every single day, whether we recognize it as funny at the moment or not.”

Source : "Sean Astin Talks Mom's Night Out, Being in a Good, Clean Comedy, Guillermo Del Toro's the Strain, Being Game for a Goonies Sequel, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. May 8, 2014.
“Other psychological theories say a good deal about compensation.”

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