There are people in every time and every land who want to stop history in its tracks. They fear the future, mistrust the present, and invoke the security of the comfortable past which, in fact, never existed.
ROBERT KENNEDYLet us dedicate ourselves to what the Greeks wrote so many years ago: to tame the savageness of man and make gentle the life of this world.
More Robert Kennedy Quotes
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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil. Government belongs wherever evil needs an adversary and there are people in distress.
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Nations around the world look to us for the leadership not merely by strength of arms but by strength of our convictions.
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In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.
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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.
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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.
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Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
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Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.
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It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.
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Some men see what is, and ask ‘Why?’ I see what might be, and ask ‘Why Not?’
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I dream of things that are not and ask why not.
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The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.
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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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Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.
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What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.
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I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.
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The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.
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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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If you never quit, youll never fail.
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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.
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The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.
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All of us might wish at times that we lived in a more tranquil world, but we don’t. And if our times are difficult and perplexing, so are they challenging and filled with opportunity.
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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.
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Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.
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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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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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Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.
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