Robert F. Kennedy Quotes

People say I am ruthless. I am not ruthless. And if I find the man who is calling me ruthless, I shall destroy him.

I believe that, as long as there is plenty, poverty is evil.

Send forth a tiny ripple of hope.

Only those who have the courage to fail greatly achieve greatly.

What has violence ever accomplished? What has it ever created? No martyr's cause has ever been stilled by an assassin's bullet...

The greatest truth must be recognition that in every man, in every child is the potential for greatness.

You're happiest while you're making the greatest contribution.

The sharpest criticism often goes hand in hand with the deepest idealism and love of country.

Every society gets the kind of criminal it deserves.

Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies.

In your hands lies the future of your world and the fulfilment of the best qualities of your own spirit.

The natural state of a human being is dignity.

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.

I think there is an obligation on the part of all of us to stay informed and aware.

Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.

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.

Fear not the path of Truth for the lack of People walking on it.

It is immoral to see evil and not act on it.

If you never quit, youll never fail.

I dream of things that are not and ask why not.

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?

It is the essence of responsibility to put the public good ahead of personal gain

Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.

Every time you stand up for an ideal, you send forth a tiny ripple of hope.

The purpose of life is to contribute in some way to making things better.

All of us will ultimately be judged on the effort we have contributed to building a new world order.

The enlargement of liberty for individual human beings must be the supreme goal and abiding practice of any western society.

Too much and too long, we seem to have surrendered community excellence and community values in the mere accumulation of material things.

Some men see what is, and ask 'Why?' I see what might be, and ask 'Why Not?'

We know that if one man's rights are denied, the rights of all are endangered.

A life without criticism is not worth living.

You knew that what is given or granted can be taken away, that what is begged can be refused; but that what is earned is kept.

Religion is a salve for confusion and misdirection.

Industrial agriculture now accounts for over half of America's water pollution.

What happens to the country, to the world, depends on what we do with what others have left us.

Only those who dare to fail greatly achieve.