Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession. — Kingman Brewster, Jr Career Copy Share Image
There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness. — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious. — Kingman Brewster, Jr Ambiguity Copy Share Image
While the spoken word can travel faster, you cant take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed… — Kingman Brewster, Jr Books Copy Share Image
There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation. — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by… — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
It won't make for a quiet life but it will make for an interesting paper vastly more significant because it is doing… — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program. — Kingman Brewster, Jr Books Copy Share Image
You and I know that there is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly. — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II. — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
The fullness or emptiness of life will be measured by the extent to which a man feels that he has an impact… — Kingman Brewster, Jr Emptiness Copy Share Image
With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market… — Kingman Brewster, Jr Ancient Copy Share Image
Maybe you are the "cool" generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of… — Kingman Brewster, Jr Admiration Copy Share Image
It is the natural desire of each nation to use the other as an instrument of its own purposes and policies. By… — Kingman Brewster, Jr Dependence Copy Share Image
The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object… — Kingman Brewster, Jr Ambassadors Copy Share Image
The presumption of innocence is not just a legal concept. In commonplace terms, it rests on that generosity of spirit which assumes… — Kingman Brewster, Jr Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most fundamental value of a liberal education is that it makes life more interesting. It allows you to think things… — Kingman Brewster, Jr Bored Copy Share Image
Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information. — Kingman Brewster, Jr Decision making Copy Share Image
