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Murray Kempton Quotes

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A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.  (Murray Kempton Quotes) America... an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products themselves  (Murray Kempton Quotes) A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up  (Murray Kempton Quotes) No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting  (Murray Kempton Quotes) There are things a man must not do even to save a nation  (Murray Kempton Quotes) The world of shabby gentility is like no other; its sacrifices have less logic, its standards are harsher, its relation to reality is dimmer than comfortable property or plain poverty can understand  (Murray Kempton Quotes) A political convention is just not a place from which you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature  (Murray Kempton Quotes) We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who’s down  (Murray Kempton Quotes) A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature  (Murray Kempton Quotes) A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded  (Murray Kempton Quotes) The fates have a way of demanding of a man that he suffer his greatest moments all by himself; being lone seems as often attendant upon reality as being in company is attendant upon the flight from reality  (Murray Kempton Quotes) Every social war is a battle between the very few on both sides who care and who fire their shots across a crowd of spectators  (Murray Kempton Quotes) A revolution requires of its leaders a record of unbroken infallibility; if they do not possess it, they are expected to invent it  (Murray Kempton Quotes) The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it  (Murray Kempton Quotes) It is not the least of a martyr’s scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him  (Murray Kempton Quotes) To be a gentleman is to be oneself, all of a seam, on camera and off  (Murray Kempton Quotes) To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all  (Murray Kempton Quotes) It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience  (Murray Kempton Quotes) A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for him to confess that it has been unimportant in the sum of things  (Murray Kempton Quotes)