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Top 20 Murray Kempton Quotes (2025 Update)

Murray Kempton Quote: “A critic is someone who enters the battlefield after the war is over and shoots the wounded.”

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

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Murray Kempton Quote: “There is a raging tiger inside every man whom God put on this earth. Every man worthy of the respect of his children spends his life building inside himself a cage to pen that tiger in.”

2. “There is a raging tiger inside every man whom God put on this earth. Every man worthy of the respect of his children spends his life building inside himself a cage to pen that tiger in.”

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Murray Kempton Quote: “The world of shabby gentility is like no other; its sacrifices have less logic, its standards are harsher, its relation to reality is dimmer than comfortable property or plain poverty can understand.”

3. “The world of shabby gentility is like no other; its sacrifices have less logic, its standards are harsher, its relation to reality is dimmer than comfortable property or plain poverty can understand.”

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Murray Kempton Quote: “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.”

4. “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.”

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Murray Kempton Quote: “We are all addicts in various stages of degradation where I live on the Upper West Side, some to heroin, some to small dogs, and some to the New York Times. The heroin is cut, the dogs are paranoid, and the Times cheats by skimping on the West Coast ball scores. No matter, each of us goes upon the street solely in pursuit of his own particular curse.”

5. “We are all addicts in various stages of degradation where I live on the Upper West Side, some to heroin, some to small dogs, and some to the New York Times. The heroin is cut, the dogs are paranoid, and the Times cheats by skimping on the West Coast ball scores. No matter, each of us goes upon the street solely in pursuit of his own particular curse.”

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Murray Kempton Quote: “No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.”

6. “No great scoundrel is ever uninteresting.”

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Murray Kempton Quote: “It is not the least of a martyr’s scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.”

7. “It is not the least of a martyr’s scourges to be canonized by the persons who burned him.”

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$Murray Kempton Quote: “As an organized political group, the Communists have done nothing to damage our society a fraction as much as what their enemies have done in the name of defending us against subversion.”$

8. “As an organized political group, the Communists have done nothing to damage our society a fraction as much as what their enemies have done in the name of defending us against subversion.”

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Murray Kempton Quote: “A neighborhood is where, when you go out of it, you get beat up.”

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

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Murray Kempton Quote: “Men very seldom change, try though we will, beneath the shifts of exterior doctrine, our hearts so often remain what they were.”

10. “Men very seldom change, try though we will, beneath the shifts of exterior doctrine, our hearts so often remain what they were.”

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Murray Kempton Quote: “The faces in New York remind me of people who played a game and lost.”

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

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Murray Kempton Quote: “A revolution requires of its leaders a record of unbroken infallibility; if they do not possess it, they are expected to invent it.”

12. “A revolution requires of its leaders a record of unbroken infallibility; if they do not possess it, they are expected to invent it.”

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Murray Kempton Quote: “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.”

13. “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.”

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Murray Kempton Quote: “The beauty of a strong, lasting commitment is often best understood by men incapable of it.”

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

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Murray Kempton Quote: “A political convention is just not a place where you come away with any trace of faith in human nature.”

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

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Murray Kempton Quote: “To be a gentleman is to be oneself, all of a seam, on camera and off.”

16. “To be a gentleman is to be oneself, all of a seam, on camera and off.”

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Murray Kempton Quote: “The fates have a way of demanding of a man that he suffer his greatest moments all by himself; being lone seems as often attendant upon reality as being in company is attendant upon the flight from reality.”

17. “The fates have a way of demanding of a man that he suffer his greatest moments all by himself; being lone seems as often attendant upon reality as being in company is attendant upon the flight from reality.”

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Murray Kempton Quote: “The Communists offer one precious, fatal boon: they take away the sense of sin.”

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

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Murray Kempton Quote: “It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.”

19. “It is function of government to invent philosophies to explain the demands of its own convenience.”

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Murray Kempton Quote: “There are things a man must not do even to save a nation.”

20. “There are things a man must not do even to save a nation.”

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Murray Kempton Quote: “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.”

21. “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.”

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