The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness.

My idea of education is to unsettle the minds of the young and inflame their intellects.

The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.

There is only one justification for universities, as distinguished from trade schools. They must be centers of criticism.

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

Education is a kind of continuing dialogue, and a dialogue assumes different points of view.

A world community can exist only with world communication, which means something more than extensive short-wave facilities scattered; about the globe. It means common understanding, a common tradition, common ideas, and common ideals.

To solve a problem it is necessary to think. It is necessary to think even to decide what facts to collect.

The object of education is to prepare the young to educate themselves throughout their lives.

A liberal education... frees a man from the prison-house of his class, race, time, place, background, family and even his nation.

When I feel like exercising I just lie down until the feeling goes away.

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things. The monkey wears an expression of seriousness which would do credit to any college student, but the monkey is serious because he itches.

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

Education is not to reform students or amuse them or to make them expert technicians. It is to unsettle their minds, widen their horizons, inflame their intellects, teach them to think straight, if possible.

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.

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

It is not so important to be serious as it is to be serious about the important things.

We may have found a cure for most evils; but we have found no remedy for the worst of them all, the apathy of human beings.

Hate is not the opposite of love; apathy is.

Tolerance it a tremendous virtue, but the immediate neighbors of tolerance are apathy and weakness.

Persecution was at least a sign of personal interest. Tolerance is composed of nine parts of apathy to one of brotherly love.

When too many Americans don't vote or participate, some see apathy and despair. I see disappointment and even outrage. And I believe that out of this frustration can come hope and action.

Harold Wilson is going around the country stirring up apathy.

I think worrying things are going on in England - a real apathy.

Man watches his history on the screen with apathy and an occasional passing flicker of horror or indignation.

The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.

The apathy of the people is enough to make every statue leap from its pedestal and hasten the resurrection of the dead.

Science may have found a cure for most evils; but it has found no remedy for the worst of them all - the apathy of human beings.

Is it ignorance or apathy? Hey, I don't know and I don't care.

People have moved beyond apathy, beyond skepticism into deep cynicism.

Willpower is the key to success. Successful people strive no matter what they feel by applying their will to overcome apathy, doubt or fear.

In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.

The tyranny of a prince in an oligarchy is not so dangerous to the public welfare as the apathy of a citizen in a democracy.

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium.

I was faced more with apathy than opposition.

Apathy is a sort of living oblivion.

HIV infection and AIDS is growing - but so too is public apathy. We have already lost too many friends and colleagues.

I have a very strong feeling that the opposite of love is not hate - it's apathy. It's not giving a damn.

Apathy can be overcome by enthusiasm, and enthusiasm can only be aroused by two things: first, an ideal, with takes the imagination by storm, and second, a definite intelligible plan for carrying that ideal into practice.

Is sloppiness in speech caused by ignorance or apathy? I don't know and I don't care.

All hippies around now just represent complete apathy.

Britain is rich in radicalism, and anyone who says that our society has drifted into fatalism and apathy should get out more.

Fear is better than apathy because fear makes us do something.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

In Pierre Elliott Trudeau, Canada has at last produced a political leader worthy of assassination.

There was a man who was an associate of jimmy Hoffa, who testified against Hoffa in his trial down in Tennessee. We had information from him that he and Hoffa did, in fact, discuss the planning of an assassination conspiracy against Bobby Kennedy.

Days will prove that the assassination policy will not finish the Hamas. Hamas leaders wish to be martyrs and are not scared of death. Jihad will continue and the resistance will continue until we have victory, or we will be martyrs.

Consider well this fact: As long as the German people does not arise and use force directed by its own will, the assassination of the people will continue.