Murray Kempton Quotes
A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
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If it wasn't for what goes on in the world of politics, we wouldn't really have much of a show.
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I'm a novelist, a critic, an essayist - I tend to see politics as a subset of cultures rather than the other way around. It's a human enterprise, a tool or a technology revealing our collective inner self.
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The 'democracy gap' in our politics and elections spells a deep sense of powerlessness by people who drop out, do not vote, or listlessly vote for the 'least worst' every four years and then wonder why after every cycle the 'least worst' gets worse.
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Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.
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Unity in faith is theocracy; unity in politics is fascism.
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Hell, I never vote for anybody, I always vote against.
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Politics and government are certainly among the most important of practical human interests.
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We need more of the Office Desk and less of the Show Window in politics. Let men in office substitute the midnight oil for the limelight.
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Bangalore now wants a person who doesn't only play politics. Bangalore needs a problem solver, and I am a problem solver. I will be the bridge between Bangalore and the Centre.
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To embrace Hindutva is to embrace an obscurantist, backward looking, divisive ideology that seeks to polarise society through identity politics.
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Enter politics, and you enter the glass house; there are no secrets and no places to hide.
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So often, literature about African people is conflated with literature about African politics, as if the state were somehow of greater import or interest than the individual.
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I wanted to be a senator from Illinois. I was obsessed with politics. My dad was friends with a lot of local politicians, so I would hang out with them on Election Day and hand out buttons. Somehow, even though they were opposite, I loved Ronald Reagan and Bill Clinton. I thought they were the coolest guys!
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Politics swings like a pendulum.
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People don't care anymore because they don't believe in us; they don't trust us. And that's why we should change politics, not just accept the cynical frame that, 'Well, that's just politics.'
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The danger of computers becoming like humans is not as great as the danger of humans becoming like computers.
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To be a good friend remember that we are human magnets: that like attracts like and that as we give we get.
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For the real difference between humans and other animals is that humans alone have perception of good and evil, just and unjust, etc. It is the sharing of a common view in these matters that makes a household and a state.
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But what is history, Don Ferrante would often say, without politics? A guide who walks on and on with no one following to learn the road, so that his every step is wasted; just as politics without history is like a man who walks along without a guide.
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You cannot get anything out of nature or from God by gambling; only out of your neighbor.
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The sort of man you will make of yourself, how you will be regarded by the world, whether people will admire and respect or despise you, whether you win the approval or the condemnation of your Maker - all this is in your own hands.
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We really want to see how the idea of an intellectual action movie is received by the world.
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A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.
