Murray Kempton

A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded. ↗

— Murray Kempton

#humor

It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience. ↗

— Murray Kempton

#demands #explain #function #government #invent

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

#been #confess #evil #far #good

A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up. ↗

— Murray Kempton

#get #go #neighborhood #out #up

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

— Murray Kempton

#away #come #convention #faith #human

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

— Murray Kempton

#beauty #best #commitment #incapable #lasting

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

— Murray Kempton

#game #lost #me #new #new york

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

#been #fashionable #hardly #i #i think

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

— Murray Kempton

#down #find #government #hack #laws

No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting. ↗

— Murray Kempton

#great #scoundrel #uninteresting