In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
There's far more truth in the Book of Genesis than in the quantum theory. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Animistic savages prostrating themselves before a painted stone have always seemed to me to be nearer the truth than any Einstein or… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Accumulating knowledge is a form of avarice and lends itself to another version of the Midas story ...man [is] so avid for… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity.… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“These three people, Pascal, Blake, and Dostoyevsky, illustrate perfectly what I have long believed to be the case, that history consists of… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Everything Tolstoy wrote is precious, but I found this final statement of the truth about life as he had come to understand… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
One of the great weaknesses of the progressive, as distinct from the religious, mind, is that it has no awareness of truth… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
“Any religious expression of truth, however bizzare or uncouth, is more sufficing than any secular one, however elegant and intellectually brilliant. Animistic… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuitslikebecoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying thought the… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share
The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share
Posterity will surely be amazed, and I hope vastly amused, that such slipshod and unconvincing theorizing should have so easily captivated twentieth-century minds and… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share
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 Copy Share
Marx and Freud are the two great destroyers of Christian civilization, the first replacing the gospel of love by the gospel of hate, the… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share
I wouldn't have said that Anthony Eden was equipped by nature to deal with the situation in the world today. I would have said… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share
God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share
This life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare presume to put out,… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share
As Man alone, Jesus could not have saved us; As God alone, He would not; Made flesh, He could and did. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share
I think it [presidency of Dwight Eisenhower] came too late and I think that he is not on the wavelength of this dreadful time… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share
Future historians will surely see us as having created in the media a Frankenstein monster whom no one knows how to control ordirect, and… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share
I think that President [Dwight] Eisenhower was... did the most marvelous job in the war, not really a military job: a public relations job,… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share
![“Accumulating knowledge is a form of avarice and lends itself to another version of the Midas story ...man [is] so avid for knowledge that everything that he touches turns to facts; his faith becomes theology; his love becomes lechery; his wisdom becomes science; pursuing meaning, he ignores truth.” quote by Malcolm Muggeridge](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/8e6/malcolm-muggeridge-2370_accumulating_accumulating-knowledge-is-a-form-of-avar_566709.jpg)
