Robert Kennedy Quotes

We can't talk about community values without being prepared to invest in those very same communities.

Our Nation is in great need of young men and women of character to lead in every arena of our society.

We must reflect on the kind of country that we want to build and the kind of society which we are choosing to pass on to our children.

I will involve everyone to make Delhi an ideal state.

Being attentive to the things that add meaning to our lives alongside politics will help us inform our politics with the values that really do make America great.

Where there is not community, trust, respect, ethical behavior are difficult for the young to learn and for the old to maintain.

Over the past two decades, we have clearly seen an erosion of ethical values.

As a consequence, progress has come to mean simply more power, more profit, more productivity, more paper prosperity, all of which are convertible into standards concerned only with size or magnitude rather than quality or excellence.

The quality of life, values that go down to doin' that, that's the issue.

Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.

As individuals, people are inherently good. I have a somewhat more pessimistic view of people in groups. And I remain extremely concerned when I see what's happening in our country, which is in many ways the luckiest place in the world. We don't seem to be excited about making our country a better place for our kids.

In the nineties, everybody wants to talk about their rights and privileges. Twenty-five years ago, people talked about their obligations and responsibilities.

It's good for people to believe in causes larger than themselves.

To have a sense of education and ethics is important.

I'm not so in love with material things that I'll do anything for money. That allows me the luxury of doing things of value.

We lost our minds in the '80s and '90s; we really as a society just felt that everyone could only care about themselves. There was no responsibility to discuss what's going on in your town, your state, your nation. And it was a blast, it was really fun, but it doesn't work.

Catholic schools in our Nation's education have been paramount in teaching the values that we as parents seek to instill in our children.

It seems to me that we're in danger of losing sight of certain basic civic values in society by allowing the growth of a whole generation of people who really have no sense of attachment to society.

Let us all take more responsibility, not only for ourselves and our families but for our communities and our country.

Americans want individual freedom and yet they want strong communities. There is some contradiction there.

...little has changed in our New York neighborhoods except the faces, the names, and the languages spoken. The same decent values of hard work and accomplishment and service to city and nation still exist.

As states we act, in general, and in most cases, exactly like the individuals of whom our society is composed.

Being a citizen in a democracy involves more than just voting. It means being involved for the common whole.

I don't believe the makeup of America is as solid as it was 40 years ago. Society has become more selfish and, as a result, less dedicated to the common good. Millions hail a culture that is now more concerned with money and appearances than with genuine accomplishment.

For traditional societies … the collective, the group, is more important than the individual, and empowering the individual is equated with dividing the society.