Home
Authors
Tags
App
Get QuoteDark Inspirational Quotes App
" Does politics have to be injected into everything? "
Sargent Shriver
Politics
Everything
Does
Related Quotes:
" When Roosevelt came along, I approved of his program, generally. I figured an economic system should work for people, not vice versa. "
Sargent Shriver
People
System
Economic
" It is precisely our job as Catholics to speak the truth as plainly and precisely as we can. "
Sargent Shriver
Speak
Truth
Our
" Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices. "
Sargent Shriver
Racists
Illogical
Irrational
" As far as I was concerned, the Depression was an ill wind that blew some good. If it hadn't occurred, my parents would have given me my college education. As it was, I had to scrabble for it. "
Sargent Shriver
Good
Depression
Me
" If a young person has any idealism at all, it's strongest about the time he finishes college. "
Sargent Shriver
Time
Young
Person
" I want to warn anyone who sees the Peace Corps as an alternative to the draft that life may well be easier at Fort Dix or at apost in Germany than it will be with us. "
Sargent Shriver
Us
Want
Draft
" Joe Kennedy isn't in the habit of having incompetents around. I wouldn't have lasted three months if I didn't have some ability. "
Sargent Shriver
Months
Ability
Habit
" I hate goofballs. "
Sargent Shriver
Hate
" Being accused of enthusiasm is something I'll never live down. "
Sargent Shriver
Live
Enthusiasm
Down
" Working in an underdeveloped land for two or three years, the volunteer will often find that his work is routine and full of frustration. "
Sargent Shriver
Find
Work
Three
" Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being. "
Sargent Shriver
Rational
Respect
Man
" Do we talk about the dignity of work? Do we give our students any reason for believing it is worthwhile to sacrifice for their work because such sacrifices improve the psychological and mental health of the person who makes them? "
Sargent Shriver
Sacrifice
Work
Health
" It is well to be prepared for life as it is, but it is better to be prepared to make life better than it is. "
Sargent Shriver
Well
Than
Better
" I do not think that the educational program of our schools should be determined by what the community thinks it needs. "
Sargent Shriver
Community
Determined
Needs
" There is an alternative to war. It has been with us forever. "
Sargent Shriver
War
Forever
Alternative
" Do the job first. Worry about the clearance later. "
Sargent Shriver
Worry
About
Job
" The natural idealism of youth is an idealism, alas, for which we do not always provide as many outlets as we should. "
Sargent Shriver
Many
Alas
Always
" Racism cannot be cured solely by attacking some of the results it produces, like discrimination in housing or in education. "
Sargent Shriver
Housing
Results
Racism
" I never ride just to ride. I ride to catch a fox. I play baseball to make the team. "
Sargent Shriver
Never
Fox
Baseball
" My parents had always preached the virtues of hard work. But hard work is one thing; economic struggle is another. "
Sargent Shriver
Struggle
Hard Work
Parents
" Christian virtues unite men. Racism separates them. "
Sargent Shriver
Christian
Unite
Virtues
" It wouldn't kill me if I were never nominated or elected to anything. "
Sargent Shriver
Anything
Me
Elected
" I don't think the Gallup Poll technique is going to be very helpful in determining the goals of our educational system. "
Sargent Shriver
Goals
System
Helpful
" The roots of racism lie deep in man's nature, wounded and bruised by original sin. "
Sargent Shriver
Man
Lie
Deep
" I can remember at college, living on 30-cent meals. "
Sargent Shriver
I Can
Living
Meals
" He who knows all things and believes nothing is damned. "
Sargent Shriver
Who
Nothing
Things
" The Peace Corps would give thousands of young Americans a chance to see at first hand the conditions in remote areas of the world. "
Sargent Shriver
Peace
See
World
" It's the most rewarding thing to be a civil servant. "
Sargent Shriver
Servant
Civil
Most
" A line has to be drawn somewhere between what is essential and what is peripheral. "
Sargent Shriver
Somewhere
Essential
Line
" I don't have to run the Peace Corps. I could live without seeing my picture in the newspapers and without being interviewed. "
Sargent Shriver
Run
Peace
Seeing