Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes

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• I will lift mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humble aspirin to the multi-colored, king-sized three deckers, which put you…
• Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.
• In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.
• Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
• Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age purports to equip us to live and is prescribed as a universal remedy for everything…
• This life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare presume to put out, be…
• Tranquilizers to overcome angst, pep pills to wake us up, life pills to ensure blissful sterility. I will lift up my ears unto the pills…
• It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a war, seducing beautiful women, flying…
• There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a…
• Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
• What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.
• On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide with Me' in…
• Its avowed purpose is to excite sexual desire, which, I should have thought, is unnecessary in the case of the young, inconvenient in the case…
• The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex alcohol, drugs, all devices for…
• One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
• A ready means of being cherished by the English is to adopt the simple expedient of living a long time. I have little doubt that…
• Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
• Everything Tolstoy wrote is precious, but I found this final statement of the truth about life as he had come to understand it particularly beautiful…
• He was not only a bore; he bored for England.
• Contrary to what might be expected, I look back on experiences that at the time seemed especially desolating and painful with particular satisfaction. Indeed, I…

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