John F. Kennedy Quotes About Reality

• Those who do nothing are inviting shame as well as violence. Those who act boldly are recognizing right as well as reality.

  John F. Kennedy

  Reality, Violence, Shame

  Civil Rights Address, delivered 11 June 1963

• The supreme reality of our time is the vulnerability of our planet.

  John F. Kennedy

  Time, Reality, Environmental

  Speech to a joint session of the Dail and the Seanad, Dublin, Ireland, June 28, 1963.

• The problems with this world cannot possibly be solved by sceptics or cynics whose horizons are limited by the obvious realities. We need people who can dream of things that never were.

  John F. Kennedy

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

• Art establishes the basic human truths which must serve as the touchstones of our judgement. The artist... faithful to his personal vision of reality, becomes the last champion of the individual mind and sensibility against an intrusive society and an offensive state.

  John F. Kennedy

  Art, Reality, Faithful

• As every past generation has had to disenthrall itself from an inheritance of truisms and stereotypes, so in our own time we must move on from the reassuring repetition of stale phrases to a new, difficult, but essential confrontation with reality. For the great enemy of truth is very often not the lie-deliberate, contrived and dishonest-but the myth-persistent, persuasive and unrealistic. Mythology distracts us everywhere.

  John F. Kennedy

  Lying, Moving, Past

  Yale University Commencement Address, delivered 11 June 1962

• First, what does truth require? It requires us to face the facts as they are, not to involve ourselves in self-deception; to refuse to think merely in slogans. If we are to work for the future of the city, let us deal with the realities as they actually are, not as they might have been, and not as we wish they were.

  John F. Kennedy

  Truth, Reality, Thinking

  "Address at the Free University of Berlin". www.presidency.ucsb.edu. June 26, 1963.

• At the start of 2005 the idea of downloading a song to a mobile phone was an idea, by the end of the year it was a reality.

  John F. Kennedy

  Song, Reality, Phones

• There are only two realities in life: death and laughter. We can do nothing to change the former, so we might as well do all we can to save the latter.

  John F. Kennedy

  Laughter, Reality, Two

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