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Men define intelligence, men define usefulness, men tell us what is beautiful, men even tell us what is womanly
— Sally Kempton
A political convention is not a place where you can come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
— Murray Kempton
My son, who sees me almost every day of his life, will look at me and go, "I know that dude! I like that dude!" It's incredibly affirming.
— John Darnielle
We are a government of laws. Any laws some government hack can find to louse up a man who's down.
— Murray Kempton
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
I've never made any money off of any of my films. Statement of fact. So without commercial work, I would be in big trouble.
— Errol Morris
It is not the least of a martyr's scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.
— Murray Kempton
A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.
— Murray Kempton
A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.
— Murray Kempton
No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.
— Murray Kempton
It's hard to fight an enemy who has outposts in your head.
— Sally Kempton
The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.
— Murray Kempton
For better or worse, the people who become leaders and decision makers in politics, law and business are going to come from schools like Princeton.
— Brian Kernighan
When men imagine a female uprising, they imagine a world in which women rule men as men have ruled women.
— Sally Kempton
It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.
— Murray Kempton
To say that an idea is fashionable is to say, I think, that it has been adulterated to a point where it is hardly an idea at all.
— Murray Kempton
Every social war is a battle between the very few on both sides who care and who fire their shots across a crowd of spectators.
— Murray Kempton
Thinking the guy up ahead knows what he's doing is the most dangerous religion there is.
— Kurt Vonnegut
There is no one true church, no one chosen people.
— Terry Tempest Williams
Some people just join the military because they need college money. Then they're idiots and college wasn't going to help.
— Doug Stanhope
Men very seldom change, try though we will, beneath the shifts of exterior doctrine, our hearts so often remain what they were.
— Murray Kempton
There are things a man must not do even to save a nation.
— Murray Kempton
