“About one-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.”
Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968) American politician and brother of John F. Kennedy
Speech at the University of Pennsylvania (6 May 1964)
Address at the University of Pennsylvania (6 May 1964), quoted in [http://www.thisdayinquotes.com/2011/05/about-one-fifth-of-people-are-against.html The Philadelphia Inquirer (7 May 1964)
“About one-fifth of the people are against everything all the time.”
Robert F. Kennedy (1925–1968) American politician and brother of John F. Kennedy
Speech at the University of Pennsylvania (6 May 1964)
Gracie Allen (1902–1964) American actress and comedienne
Source: How to Become President (1940), Ch. 6 : How not to offend anybody
Meher Baba (1894–1969) Indian mystic
Meher Baba’s Call (1954)
Context: I tell you all, with my Divine Authority, that you and I are not “WE,” but “ONE.” You unconsciously feel my Avatarhood within you; I consciously feel in you what each of you feel. Thus every one of us is Avatar, in the sense that everyone and everything is everyone and everything, at the same time, and for all time.
There is nothing but God. He is the only Reality, and we all are one in the indivisible Oneness of this absolute Reality. When the One who has realized God says, “I am God. You are God, and we are all one,” and also awakens this feeling of Oneness in his illusion-bound selves, then the question of the lowly and the great, the poor and the rich, the humble and the modest, the good and the bad, simply vanishes. It is his false awareness of duality that misleads man into making illusory distinctions and filing them into separate categories.
Aaron C. Brown (1956) American financial analyst
Source: The Poker Face of Wall Street (2006), Chapter 4, A Brief History of Risk Denial, p. 81
“People want to change everything and, at the same time, want it all to remain the same.”
Paulo Coelho book The Devil and Miss Prym
Source: The Devil and Miss Prym
Mao Zedong (1893–1976) Chairman of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China
On Coalition Government (1945)
Bo Burnham (1990) American comedian, musician, and actor
Source: "Welcome to the Internet" Inside (2021)