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Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans. There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment. The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious. Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: I think that any person who is commenting on public affairs is entitled to point out those dangers. I think that any person who is commenting on public affairs is entitled to point out those dangers.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: There's far more truth in the Book of Genesis than in the quantum theory. There's far more truth in the Book of Genesis than in the quantum theory.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century. Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream. Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: Higher education is booming in the United States; the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product. Higher education is booming in the United States; the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise. In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it. My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: I think that Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late. I think that Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: As Man alone, Jesus could not have saved us; As God alone, He would not; Made flesh, He could and did. As Man alone, Jesus could not have saved us; As God alone, He would not; Made flesh, He could and did.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: Sex on the brain is the wrong place to have it. Sex on the brain is the wrong place to have it.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: The monarchical institution in England is immensely valuable. The monarchical institution in England is immensely valuable.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation. An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: Only dead fish swim with the stream Only dead fish swim with the stream
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth. The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God. What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: 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. 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.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel. St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time. Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: 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. 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.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: 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. 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.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: The Sputnik is just to me like a firework, a rocket, a new invention. The Sputnik is just to me like a firework, a rocket, a new invention.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it. The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: The essential feature, and necessity of life is to know reality, which means knowing God. The essential feature, and necessity of life is to know reality, which means knowing God.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: The only people I've met in this world who never doubt are materialists and atheists. The only people I've met in this world who never doubt are materialists and atheists.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: All of us admire people we don't like and like people we don't admire. All of us admire people we don't like and like people we don't admire.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see. There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact. The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts. A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: Politicians get their power too late, and I think that he has inherited an impossible situation in which he is ill-equipped to deal. Politicians get their power too late, and I think that he has inherited an impossible situation in which he is ill-equipped to deal.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: I accept the fact I am an unregenerate egghead. I accept the fact I am an unregenerate egghead.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: Christianity ... sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments. Christianity ... sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island. The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: All new news is old news happening to new people All new news is old news happening to new people
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: 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. 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.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: Travel, of course, narrows the mind. Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: [T]he whole character of secret Intelligence ... is that nothing should ever be done simply if there are devious ways of doing it. [T]he whole character of secret Intelligence ... is that nothing should ever be done simply if there are devious ways of doing it.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon. In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: I beg you to believe that life is not a process, it's a drama I beg you to believe that life is not a process, it's a drama
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up. One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: He was not only a bore; he bored for England. He was not only a bore; he bored for England.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: Surely the glory of journalism is its transience. Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: It's very nearly impossible to tell the truth in television. It's very nearly impossible to tell the truth in television.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation. I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: Organized religion kills the living beauty of God. Organized religion kills the living beauty of God.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: It has to be admitted that we English have sex on the brain, which is a very unsatisfactory place to have it. It has to be admitted that we English have sex on the brain, which is a very unsatisfactory place to have it.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: I think Queen Elisabeth II is a charming woman. I think Queen Elisabeth II is a charming woman.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: 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 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.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: The price you pay for being powerful and being rich is to be hated. The price you pay for being powerful and being rich is to be hated.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: When Dwight Eisenhower became president, I personally was delighted. I thought that that was a very good thing. When Dwight Eisenhower became president, I personally was delighted. I thought that that was a very good thing.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it. Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society. Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: One of the stupidest theories of Western life. One of the stupidest theories of Western life.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility. We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: I don't like seeing people angry. I don't like seeing people angry.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: I'm much too modest a person. I'm much too modest a person.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth. In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures. Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: There is no such things as darkness, only a failure to see. There is no such things as darkness, only a failure to see.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false. In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false.
Malcolm Muggeridge quotes: Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity. Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.

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