4 Robert F. Kennedy Quotes on Power

Robert F. Kennedy quotes on power

1. The problem of power is how to achieve its responsible use rather than its irresponsible and indulgent use - of how to get men of power to live for the public rather than off the public.

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3. Now I can go back to being ruthless again.

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

76. We can master change not though force or fear, but only though the free work of an understanding mind, though an openness to new knowledge and fresh outlooks, which can only strengthen the most fragile and most powerful of human gifts: the gift of reason.