He tells so many lies that he convinces himself after a while that he’s telling the truth. He just doesn’t recognize truth or falsehood.
ROBERT KENNEDYEvery society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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The future is not a gift: it is an achievement. Every generation helps make its own future. This is the essential challenge of the present.
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Punishment is not prevention. History offers cold comfort to those who think grievance and despair can be subdued by force.
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Always forgive your enemies, but never forget their names.
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If freedom makes social progress possible, so social progress strengthens and enlarges freedom. The two are inseparable partners in the great adventure of humanity.
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The intolerant man will not rely on persuasion, or on the worth of the idea. He would deny to others the very freedom of opinion or of dissent which he so stridently demands for himself. He cannot trust democracy.
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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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Ultimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
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This much is clear: violence breeds violence, repression brings retaliation, and only a cleansing of our whole society can remove this sickness from our soul.
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We know that if one man’s rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.
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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.
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Men and women with freed minds may often be mistaken, but they are seldom fooled. They may be influenced, but they cannot be intimidated. They may be perplexed, but they will never be lost.
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A life without criticism is not worth living.
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While free markets tend to democratize a society, unfettered capitalism leads invariably to corporate control of government.
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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.
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