Murray Kempton Quotes

Quotations and aphorisms by Murray Kempton:

A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.
~Murray Kempton


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https://openquotes.github.io/authors/murray-kempton-quotes/#13c6f660

The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.
~Murray Kempton


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/murray-kempton-quotes/#04794450

It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.
~Murray Kempton


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/murray-kempton-quotes/#78550aed

A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
~Murray Kempton


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/murray-kempton-quotes/#624116a1

The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.
~Murray Kempton


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/murray-kempton-quotes/#419816e5

No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.
~Murray Kempton


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/murray-kempton-quotes/#9b2d2447

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/murray-kempton-quotes/#05fcdbc2

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


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/murray-kempton-quotes/#235043f0

We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down.
~Murray Kempton


Link:
https://openquotes.github.io/authors/murray-kempton-quotes/#ae5204c2

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