Robert Francis Kennedy Famous Quotes
"Some men see things as they are and ask, 'why' I dream things that never were and ask, 'why not'NB This quote is a paraphrase from a similar quote by G. B. Shaw."
Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
"Whenever men take the law into their own hands, the loser is the law. And when the law loses, freedom languishes."
If any man claims the Negro should be content ... let him say he would willingly change the color of his skin and go to live in the Negro section of a large city. Then and only then has he a right to such a claim.
The American temptation is to believe that foreign policy is a subdivision of psychiatry.
"Each time a person 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, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance."
"The future does not belong to those who are content with today, apathetic toward common problems and their fellow man alike, timid and fearful in the face of bold projects and new ideas. Rather, it will belong to those who can blend passion, reason and courage in a personal commitment to the ideals of American society."
"Any fact that needs to be disclosed should be put out now or as quickly as possible, because otherwise ... the bleeding will not end."
Whatever must happen ultimately should happen immediately.
You can't make war in the Middle East without Egypt and you can't make peace without Syria.
"If I should ever be captured, I want no negotiation-and if I should request a negotiation from captivity they should consider that a sign of duress."
"There are those who look at things the way they are, and ask why... I dream of things that never were, and ask why not"
In crises the most daring course is often safest.
The statesman's duty is to bridge the gap between his nation's experience and his vision.
"High office teaches decision making, not substance. It consumes intellectual capital it does not create it. Most high officials leave office with the perceptions and insights with which they entered they learn how to make decisions but not what decisions to make."
"I thought they'd get one of us, but Jack, after all he's been through, never worried about it ... I thought it would be me."
Some men see things as they are and say why I dream things that never were and say Why not
"What is objectionable, what is dangerous, about extremists is not that they are extreme, but that they are intolerant. The evil is not what they say about their cause, but what they say about their opponents."
Robert Francis Kennedy Quotations
"Our American past always speaks to us with two voices the voice of the past, and the voice of the present. We are always asking two quite different questions. Historians reading the words of John Winthrop usually ask, What did they mean to him Citizens ask, What do they mean to us Historians are trained to seek the original meaning all of us want to know the present meaning."
Daniel J Boorstin
"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper."
Francis Bacon
"Not only is life a bitch, it has puppies."
Adrienne E Gusoff
The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominate political mythology.
Michael Parenti
"As Mankind becomes more liberal, they will be more apt to allow that all those who conduct themselves as worthy members of the community are equally entitled to the protections of civil government. I hope ever to see America among the foremost nations of justice and liberality."
George Washington
"The soul is created in a place between Time and Eternity with its highest powers it touches Eternity, with its lower Time."
Johannes Meister Eckhart
"Old age, believe me, is a good and pleasant thing. It is true you are gently shouldered off the stage, but then you are given such a comfortable front stall as spectator."
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Truth sits upon the lips of dying men.
Matthew Arnold
"The most beautiful and most profound emotion we can experience is the sensation of the mystical. It is the sower of all true science. So to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead. To know that which is impenetretrable to us really exists, manifesting itself as the highest wisdom and the most radiant beauty which our dull faculties can comprehend only in their primitive forms-this knowledge, this feeling is at the center of true religiousness."
Albert Einstein
Ah Mozart He was happily married - but his wife wasn't.
Victor Borge