Kingman Brewster, Jr. famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

There is no lasting hope in violence, only temporary relief from hopelessness.
-- Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#Relief #Violence #Hopelessness
There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.
-- Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#Expectations #Challenges #Satisfaction
It is satisfying for the descendant of a dissident refugee from Elizabeth I to present his credentials to Elizabeth II.
-- Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#Credentials #Refugee
With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market seems like a hollow echo of a much simpler day.
-- Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#Echoes #Media #Hands
You and I know that there is a correlation between the creative and the screwball. So we must suffer the screwball gladly.
-- Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#Creative #Suffering
While the spoken word can travel faster, you cant take it home in your hand. Only the written word can be absorbed wholly at the convenience of the reader.
-- Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#Home #Hands #Convenience
We all live in a televised goldfish bowl.
-- Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#Goldfish
The newspaper fits the reader's program while the listener must fit the broadcaster's program.
-- Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#Fit #Program #Newspapers
The function of a briefing paper is to prevent the ambassador from saying something dreadfully indiscreet. I sometimes think its true object is to prevent the ambassador from saying anything at all.
-- Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#Thinking #Paper #Ambassadors
Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.
-- Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#Sea #Skills #Intellectual
Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.
-- Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#Jargon #Hallmark #Profession
If I take refuge in ambiguity, I assure you that it's quite conscious.
-- Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#Conscious #Ambiguity #Refuge
The fullness or emptiness of life will be measured by the extent to which a man feels that he has an impact on the lives of others.
-- Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#Wrestling #Men #Impact
Maybe you are the "cool" generation If coolness means a capacity to stay calm and use your head in the service of ends passionately believed in, then it has my admiration.
-- Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#Mean #Stay Calm #Generations
Universities should be safe havens where ruthless examination of realities will not be distorted by the aim to please or inhibited by the risk of displeasure.
-- Kingman Brewster, Jr.

#Safe Haven #Reality #Risk

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