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There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.

The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.

Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.

I think that any person who is commenting on public affairs is entitled to point out those dangers.

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

There's far more truth in the Book of Genesis than in the quantum theory.

Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

Higher education is booming in the United States; the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.

In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

I think that Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late.

As Man alone, Jesus could not have saved us; As God alone, He would not; Made flesh, He could and did.

Sex on the brain is the wrong place to have it.

The monarchical institution in England is immensely valuable.

An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation.

Only dead fish swim with the stream

The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.

What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.

It's a sad thing about politics that most people get power too late, in that they differ from ladies of easy virtue who get their pleasures too early.

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man.

The Sputnik is just to me like a firework, a rocket, a new invention.

The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it.

The essential feature, and necessity of life is to know reality, which means knowing God.

The only people I've met in this world who never doubt are materialists and atheists.

All of us admire people we don't like and like people we don't admire.

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.

A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.

Politicians get their power too late, and I think that he has inherited an impossible situation in which he is ill-equipped to deal.

I accept the fact I am an unregenerate egghead.

Christianity ... sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.

The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island.

All new news is old news happening to new people

Like a prisoner awaiting his release, like a schoolboy when the end of term is near, like a migrant bird ready to fly south ... I long to be gone.

Travel, of course, narrows the mind.

[T]he whole character of secret Intelligence ... is that nothing should ever be done simply if there are devious ways of doing it.

For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die

In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.

I beg you to believe that life is not a process, it's a drama

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

He was not only a bore; he bored for England.

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me

It's very nearly impossible to tell the truth in television.

I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.

Organized religion kills the living beauty of God.

It has to be admitted that we English have sex on the brain, which is a very unsatisfactory place to have it.

I think Queen Elisabeth II is a charming woman.

The hallmark of religion is to distrust claims made for mortal men. It is in ages of great religious faith that great skepticism can find expression.

The price you pay for being powerful and being rich is to be hated.

When Dwight Eisenhower became president, I personally was delighted. I thought that that was a very good thing.

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

One of the stupidest theories of Western life.

We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility.

I don't like seeing people angry.

I'm much too modest a person.

In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.

Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.

There is no such things as darkness, only a failure to see.

In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false.

Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.