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.” Robert 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 Kennedy

“One-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.” Robert Kennedy

“Ultimately, America's answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.” Robert Kennedy

“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.” Robert Kennedy

“The free way of life proposes ends, but it does not prescribe means.” Robert Kennedy

“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.” Robert Kennedy

“I was the seventh of nine children. When you come from that far down you have to struggle to survive.” Robert Kennedy

“Now I can go back to being ruthless again.” Robert Kennedy

“Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.” Soren Kierkegaard

“Our life always expresses the result of our dominant thoughts.” Soren Kierkegaard

“Life has its own hidden forces which you can only discover by living.” Soren Kierkegaard

“Life is not a problem to be solved, but a reality to be experienced.” Soren Kierkegaard

“People demand freedom of speech as a compensation for the freedom of thought which they seldom use.” Soren Kierkegaard

“Prayer does not change God, but it changes him who prays.” Soren Kierkegaard

“God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what is still more wonderful: he makes saints out of sinners.” Soren Kierkegaard

“People understand me so poorly that they don't even understand my complaint about them not understanding me.” Soren Kierkegaard

“To dare is to lose one's footing momentarily. Not to dare is to lose oneself.” Soren Kierkegaard

“I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.” Soren Kierkegaard

“Face the facts of being what you are, for that is what changes what you are.” Soren Kierkegaard

“The highest and most beautiful things in life are not to be heard about, nor read about, nor seen but, if one will, are to be lived.” Soren Kierkegaard

“What is a poet? An unhappy person who conceals profound anguish in his heart but whose lips are so formed that as sighs and cries pass over them they sound like beautiful music.” Soren Kierkegaard

“Boredom is the root of all evil - the despairing refusal to be oneself.” Soren Kierkegaard

“Don't forget to love yourself.” Soren Kierkegaard

“Once you label me you negate me.” Soren Kierkegaard

“A man who as a physical being is always turned toward the outside, thinking that his happiness lies outside him, finally turns inward and discovers that the source is within him.” Soren Kierkegaard

“The function of prayer is not to influence God, but rather to change the nature of the one who prays.” Soren Kierkegaard

“Anxiety is the dizziness of freedom.” Soren Kierkegaard

“Faith is the highest passion in a human being. Many in every generation may not come that far, but none comes further.” Soren Kierkegaard

“The tyrant dies and his rule is over, the martyr dies and his rule begins.” Soren Kierkegaard