Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes
Top 66 wise famous quotes and sayings by Malcolm Muggeridge
Malcolm Muggeridge Famous Quotes & Sayings
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There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.
Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.
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.
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.
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 great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it.
The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.
Politicians get their power too late, and I think that he has inherited an impossible situation in which he is ill-equipped to deal.
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.
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.
[T]he whole character of secret Intelligence ... is that nothing should ever be done simply if there are devious ways of doing it.
It has to be admitted that we English have sex on the brain, which is a very unsatisfactory place to have it.
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.
When Dwight Eisenhower became president, I personally was delighted. I thought that that was a very good thing.