Quotes by Murray Kempton

Murray Kempton

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

Critics

War

Wounded

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.

Evil

Looks

Men

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

Beats

Neighborhood

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

Political

Politics

Where You Come

America… an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products themselves.

America

Distribution

Economic

Any experience deeply felt makes some men better and some men worse. When it has ended, they share nothing but the recollection of a commitment in which each was tested and to some degree found wanting. […] The consequences of the journey change the voyager so much more than the embarking or the arrival.

Commitment

Degrees

Journey

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.

Battle

Fire

War

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 time he wins them, they are no longer little things: they are miracles.

America

Long

Winning

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

Commitment

Lasting Love

Strong

The Communists offer one precious, fatal boon: they take away the sense of sin.

Communism

Communist

Sin

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Quotes by Murray Kempton

Murray Kempton

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

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.

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

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

America… an economic system prouder of the distribution of its products than of the products themselves.

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.

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 time he wins them, they are no longer little things: they are miracles.

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

The Communists offer one precious, fatal boon: they take away the sense of sin.

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