Robert M. Hutchins Quotes

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

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: educator
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: January 17, 1899 - May 17, 1977

Topics

DeathDemocracySlowWillApathy

I was half asleep lying there writing this lyric in my head at about 3:30 in the morning. I woke Steve up with this idea and then we went into the living room where there was a little upright piano and finished the song. I wonder where that piano is now?

Jim Capaldi

MorningWritingSongWonderLiving

I can't sing that well, but when punk-rock came along, it changed all that.

Jim Carroll

WellAlongSingChangedCame

I do not know myself, and God forbid that I should.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

GodMyselfKnowShouldForbid

I remember one of the first gigs I played with that amp was at a local church. They wanted someone to fill in with the guitar and my friend say, 'Ah, he can play.' And so I dragged the amplifier down and started playing and everybody started yelling 'turn it down!'

Angus Young

FriendGuitarChurchSomeonePlay

I have gone from a player who thought he would spend his whole career with one organization to a player who's been with three organizations in a week. It's like rotisserie baseball.

Mike Piazza

BaseballOrganizationThoughtWeek

I think the Beach Boys' legacy is 'Fun, Fun, Fun,' you know? We're calling our next tour '50 Years of Fun, Fun, Fun.' By and large, the Beach Boys' legacy is about incredibly positivity. We've traveled around the world and uplifted the spirits of hundreds of millions of people. Our sound is one of the most recognizable in all of music.

Mike Love

MusicBeachFunPeopleWorldLegacy

My reputation is as a fiscal hawk. At least, I hope that it is.

Mick Mulvaney

HopeReputationHawkLeastFiscal

The most disadvantageous peace is better than the most just war.

Desiderius Erasmus

PeaceWarBetterJustMostThan

My mother died happily of a stroke in her seventies.

Doris Lessing

MotherSeventiesHerStrokeHappily

In democracy everyone has the right to be represented, even the jerks.

Chris Patten

DemocracyRightEveryoneEvenJerks

If you condemn someone who has committed a crime to be tortured, that would be unconstitutional.

Antonin Scalia

SomeoneYouCrimeWouldCommitted

Showing 'Get Out' to a room full of strangers and having them react lets them be introspective and see the way certain images affect other people.

Allison Williams

PeopleStrangersReactWaySeeOut

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