The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from…

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 Maynard Hutchins

1954

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Decline of democracy Political theory

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1954

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Robert Maynard Hutchins

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Hutchins, Robert Maynard. Great Books: The Foundation of a Liberal Education. Simon and Schuster, 1954.

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