"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
Topic(s):
Society
More From Robert Kennedy
- "Progress is a nice word. But change is its motivator. And change has its enemies."
- "Only those who dare to fail greatly can ever achieve greatly."
- "But suppose God is black? What if we go to Heaven and we, all our lives, have treated the Negro as an inferior, and God is there, and we look up and He is not white? What then is our response?"
More In Society
- "Rumi, who is one of the greatest Persian poets, said that the truth was a mirror in the hands of God. It fell, and broke into pieces. Everybody took a piece of it, and they looked at it and thought they had the truth."― Mohsen Makhmalbaf
- "As the society has gotten larger and more complex, individuals have lost their ability to influence any of the institutions that affect their lives."― Robert Teeter
- "Writing is a solitary occupation. Family, friends, and society are the natural enemies of the writer. He must be alone, uninterrupted, and slightly savage if he is to sustain and complete an undertaking."― Jessamyn West