Robert Maynard Hutchins Quotes

A civilization in which there is not a continuous controversy about important issues is on the way to totalitarianism and death

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A student can win twelve letters at a university without learning how to write one

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The most distressing aspect of the world into which you are going is its indifference to the basic issues, which now, as always, are moral issues

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Nobody can decide for himself whether he is going to be a human being. The only question open to him is whether he will be an ignorant undeveloped one or one who has sought to reach the highest point he is capable of attaining.

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