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Robert F. Kennedy1925–1968

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.

Robert F. Kennedy on power

“I Remember, I Believe,” The Pursuit of Justice (1964)

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Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly.
Day of Affirmation Address (1966)
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Tragedy is a tool for the living to gain wisdom, not a guide by which to live.
“Conflict in Vietnam and at Home” speech at Kansas State University on March 18, 1968 as part of the Alfred M. Landon Lectures on Public Issues.
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Ultimately, America’s answer to the intolerant man is diversity, the very diversity which our heritage of religious freedom has inspired.
“Extremism, Left and Right,” pt. 3, (1964)
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More about power

What is happiness? The feeling that power is growing, that resistance is overcome.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900The Antichrist (1895), Aphorism 2
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What is good? Everything that heightens the feeling of power in man, the will to power, power itself.
Friedrich Nietzsche1844–1900The Antichrist (1895), Aphorism 2
- Morality
Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.
Carl Jung1875–1961The Psychology of the Unconscious (1943), P. 97
- Love

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