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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
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[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