Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes

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• Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.
• For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die
• I hate government. I hate power. I think that man's existence, insofar as he achieves anything, is to resist power, to minimize power, to devise…
• Behind the debris of these self-styled, sullen supermen and imperial diplomatists, there stands the gigantic figure of one person, because of whom, by whom, in…
• 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 been…
• 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…
• There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.
• God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your thoughts,…
• Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.
• How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me
• The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.
• Supposing you eliminated suffering, what a dreadful place the world would be! I would almost rather eliminate happiness. The world would be the most ghastly…
• What is called Western Civilization is in an advanced state of decomposition, and another Dark Ages will soon be upon us, if, indeed, it has…
• All happenings, great and small, are parables whereby God speaks. The art of life is to get the message. To see all that is offered…
• The skyscrapers began to rise again, frailly massive, elegantly utilitarian, images in their grace, audacity and inconclusiveness, of the whole character of the people who…
• The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is left none over for works of imagination; of spiritual…
• I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.
• Whatever is fine and permanent in human achievement has been realised through individuals courageously facing the circumstances of their being; and a society is civilised…
• Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.
• Higher education is booming in the United States; the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.

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