Kerry Kennedy Quotes

I'm interested in Scotland now and then, how it's changed. I want to get the reader to think about that by thinking about something from the past. How has society changed, how has policing changed, have we changed philosophically, psychologically, culturally, spiritually?

I think the British have the distinction above all other nations of being able to put new wine into old bottles without bursting them.

We now know how things were in the '60s and how things have changed, but I don't think we appreciate how much things have changed.

I mean, the Constitution of this country was written 200 years ago. The house I was living in in Madrid is 350 years old! America is still a project, and you guys are working on it and bringing new things to it every day. That is beautiful to watch.

That’s one of the wonders of this country. Eventually, we live up to our ideals.

Cultural change always precedes political change.

As Americans, it is always important to remember where we once were and how far we have come.

Our nation is too strong and too good to let one man tear down everything we stand for. I refuse to let Donald Trump take our country backwards.

Culture is a slingshot moved by the force of its past

In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.

I was eight when independence happened. I remember my mum and dad getting dressed up to go to the independence concert to go listen to Bob Marley. Independence was such a wonderful time; we had so many expectations of the kind of country we would become. The vision of the government then was a wonderful vision.

Our Country is a beacon of hope for the world.

My student days in PSG saw three Prime Ministers, two wars, taught us courage, resilience, leadership and optimism.

I think that, ultimately, my father-in-law will change the United States for the better, restore pride to our country and go down in history as one of the greatest Presidents.

Often, we have only focused on what we've done wrong as a nation. Of course we should face our sins and our mistakes. But if we get stuck there and don't focus on where we've come from and how we've overcome those sins and mistakes, we are truly to be pitied.

A time will come when men will sit with history before them or with some old newspaper before them and ask incredulously,"Was there ever such a world?"

What one generation finds ridiculous, the next accepts; and the third shudders when it looks back on what the first did.

I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic.

The bad news is that the movement toward the partnership side of the social scale (and it is always a matter of degree, as no society is a pure partnership or domination system) has been fiercely resisted and countered by periodic regressions. So domination systems have rebuilt themselves in different forms - be they secular or religious, eastern or western, leftist or rightist.

Revolutions are not made: they come. A revolution is as natural a growth as an oak. It comes out of the past. Its foundations are laid far back.

It's not just modern-day society that is liberal.

Why is America the last best hope of Earth? What if it's Liechtenstein? Or, worse, Canada?

If we're to have a future in the 21st century, we'll want to be able to say, "Now what was the 20th century like in the United States of America, the most powerful of all countries of that century? What was it like to be an ordinary person?"

The minority of one generation is usually the majority of the next.

Western civilization presents one of the most difficult tasks for historical analysis, because it is not yet finished, because we are a part of it and lack perspective, and because it presents considerable variation from our pattern of historical change.