It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.
ROBERT KENNEDY
ROBERT KENNEDY
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Robert Kennedy61 quotes“It is not enough to understand, or to see clearly. The future will be shaped in the arena of human activity, by those willing to commit their minds and their bodies to the task.”
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There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
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Robert KennedyRobert 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 KennedyRobert Kennedy Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
Robert KennedyRobert Kennedy Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves. What is equally true is that every community gets the kind of law enforcement it insists on.
Robert KennedyRobert Kennedy It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
Robert KennedyRobert Kennedy The essential humanity of men can be protected and preserved only where government must answer, not just to the wealthy, not just to those of a particular religion, or a particular race, but to all its people.
Robert KennedyRobert Kennedy We can master change not though force or fear, but only though the free work of an understanding mind, though an openness to new knowledge and fresh outlooks, which can only strengthen the most fragile and most powerful of human gifts: the gift of reason.
Robert KennedyRobert 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 KennedyRobert Kennedy In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
Robert KennedyRobert Kennedy The future does not belong to those who are content with today Rather, it will belong to those who can blend vision, reason, and courage in a personal commitment.
Robert KennedyRobert Kennedy If you never quit, youll never fail.
Robert KennedyRobert Kennedy I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
Robert KennedyRobert Kennedy Together, we can make ourselves a nation that spends more on books than on bombs, more on hospitals than the terrible tools of war, more on decent houses than military aircraft.
Robert KennedyRobert Kennedy While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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The extra curricular activity in which I was most engaged – debating – helped shape my interests in public policy.
Joseph StiglitzJoseph Stiglitz Bitcoin is very ideologically fulfilling, it’s my form of political activism, but it’s also a huge business opportunity.
Erik VoorheesErik Voorhees We have actively worked to share our experience of development with other nations, especially in Asia.
Shinzo AbeShinzo Abe Paranoiac-critical activity makes the world of delirium pass onto the plane of reality.
Salvador DaliSalvador Dali Give me two hours a day of activity, and I’ll take the other twenty-two in dreams.
Salvador DaliSalvador Dali Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Love alone is the only reasonable activity or pursuit of humankind.
Leo TolstoyLeo Tolstoy Japan will calmly proceed with its activities in line with international law.
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