61 Quotes by Robert M. Hutchins

On the principle laid down by Gilbert and Sullivan that when everybody is somebody, nobody is anybody; if everybody is abnormal, we don’t need to worry about anybody.

Democracy has not failed; the intelligence of the race has failed before the problems the race has raised.

It has been said that we have not had the three R’s in America, we had the six R’s; remedial readin’, remedial ‘ritin’ and remedial ’rithmetic.

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.

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

We can put television in its proper light by supposing that Gutenberg’s great invention had been directed at printing only comic books.

This is a do-it-yourself test for paranoia: you know you’ve got it when you can’t think of anything that’s your fault.