«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 M. Hutchins*

* (Brooklyn, NY, U.S. 17-Jan-1899 / Santa Barbara, CA, U.S. 17-May-1977).
Educational philosopher, dean of Yale Law School, president and chancellor of the University of Chicago. Although his father and grandfather were both Presbyterian ministers, Hutchins became one of the most influential members of the school of secular perennialism.