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

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

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

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

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

Malcolm Muggeridge who said that the only real Englishmen left in the world were to be found in India. — Ruskin Bond

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

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

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

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream. — Malcolm Muggeridge

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

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

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

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

I accept the fact I am an unregenerate egghead. — Malcolm Muggeridge

Sex on the brain is the wrong place to have it. — Malcolm Muggeridge

To paraphrase Muggeridge: Everything is a parable that God is speaking to us, the art of life is to get the message. — Chester Elijah Branch

The monarchical institution in England is immensely valuable. — Malcolm Muggeridge

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

Only dead fish swim with the stream — Malcolm Muggeridge

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

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

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

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

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

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

Later the place was as deserted as Malcolm Muggeridge's Christmas party of fellow intellectuals. — William Donaldson

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts. — Malcolm Muggeridge

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

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

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

All new news is old news happening to new people — Malcolm Muggeridge

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

Travel, of course, narrows the mind. — Malcolm Muggeridge

[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

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

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

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

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

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

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience. — Malcolm Muggeridge

How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me — Malcolm Muggeridge

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

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

Organized religion kills the living beauty of God. — Malcolm Muggeridge

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

One of the stupidest theories of Western life. — Malcolm Muggeridge

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

I don't like seeing people angry. — Malcolm Muggeridge

I'm much too modest a person. — Malcolm Muggeridge

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

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

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

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

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

I think Queen Elisabeth II is a charming woman. — Malcolm Muggeridge