“The fates have a way of demanding of a man that he suffer his greatest moments all by himself; being alone seems as often attendant upon reality as being in company is attendant upon flight from reality. (frm "Part of… — Murray Kempton Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It is a measure of the Negro's circumstance that, in America, the smallest things usually take him so very long, and that, by the… — Murray Kempton Copy Share
A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature. — Murray Kempton Copy Share
It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him. — Murray Kempton Copy Share
There is a raging tiger inside every man whom God put on this earth. Every man worthy of the respect of his children spends… — Murray Kempton Copy Share
As an organized political group, the Communists have done nothing to damage our society a fraction as much as what their enemies have done… — Murray Kempton Copy Share
We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down. — Murray Kempton Copy Share
Any experience deeply felt makes some men better and some men worse. When it has ended, they share nothing but the recollection of a… — Murray Kempton Copy Share
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 Copy Share
It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience. — Murray Kempton Copy Share
Every social war is a battle between the very few on both sides who care and who fire their shots across a crowd of… — Murray Kempton Copy Share
Men very seldom change, try though we will, beneath the shifts of exterior doctrine, our hearts so often remain what they were. — Murray Kempton Copy Share
To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly… — Murray Kempton Copy Share
A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded. — Murray Kempton Copy Share
America... an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products themselves. — Murray Kempton Copy Share
