GNP measures neither our courage, our wisdom neither our compassion. It measures everything except what makes life worthwhile
ROBERT KENNEDYNations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
-
-
You’re happiest while you’re making the greatest contribution.
ROBERT KENNEDY -
Every dictatorship has ultimately strangled in the web of repression it wove for its people, making mistakes that could not be corrected because criticism was prohibited.
ROBERT KENNEDY -
I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.
ROBERT KENNEDY -
Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
ROBERT KENNEDY -
Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America’s water pollution.
ROBERT KENNEDY -
What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
ROBERT KENNEDY -
Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
ROBERT KENNEDY -
Too often we honor swagger and bluster and the wielders of force; too often we excuse those who are willing to build their own lives on the shattered dreams of others.
ROBERT KENNEDY -
A life without criticism is not worth living.
ROBERT KENNEDY -
Just because we cannot see clearly the end of the road, that is no reason for not setting out on the essential journey. On the contrary, great change dominates the world, and unless we move with change we will become its victims.
ROBERT KENNEDY -
What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr’s cause has ever been stilled by an assassin’s bullet.
ROBERT KENNEDY -
Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.
ROBERT KENNEDY -
It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain.
ROBERT KENNEDY -
Each time a man stands up for an ideal or acts to improve the lot of others or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope.
ROBERT KENNEDY -
The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
ROBERT KENNEDY






