"It is function of government to invent philosophies……" — Murray Kempton
"It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience."
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Murray Kempton
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24 Quotes by Murray Kempton
Murray Kempton has 24 quotes on this site.
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A man can look upon his life and accept it as good or evil; it is far, far harder for…
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The fates have a way of demanding of a man that he suffer his greatest moments all by himself; being…
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A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
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A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.
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Any experience deeply felt makes some men better and some men worse. When it has ended, they share nothing but…
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By adherence to a special set of rules, the child of the shabby-genteel can sometimes leap across the time which…
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To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that is has been adulterated to a point…
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A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.
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No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.
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The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.
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The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.
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It is a measure of the Negro's circumstance that, in America, the smallest things usually take him so very long,…
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The moment you abate anything from the full rights of men to each govern himself, and suffer any artificial positive…
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Violence is hidden within democratic structures because they are not radically democratic - Western democracy is merely a domestic convenience…
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Scientific discovery consists in the interpretation for our own convenience of a system of existence which has been made with…
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There is a single general space, a single vast immensity which we may freely call void: in it are unnumerable…
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