61 Quotes by Robert M. Hutchins

Anybody who feels at ease in the world today is a fool.

Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings.

We do not know what education can do for us, because we have never tried it.

The policy of repression of ideas cannot work and never has worked.

Whether four years of strenuous attention to football and fraternities is the best preparation for professional work has never been seriously investigated.

It sometimes seems as though we were trying to combine the ideal of no schools at all with the democratic ideal of schools for everybody by having schools without education.

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

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.

America's experiment with government of the people, by the people, and for the people depends not only on constitutional structure and organization but also on the commitment, person to person, that we make to each other.