All Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes
- The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of… American
- My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it. Adopted
- It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make… Discovered
- There is no such things as darkness, only a failure to see. Darkness
- If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the… Clenched
- In the end, coming to faith remains for all a sense of homecoming, of picking up the threads of a lost life, of responding to… All
- People think of faith as being something that you don't really believe, a device in helping you believe simply it. Of course that is quite… Aware
- [Pascal] was the first and perhaps is still the most effective voice to be raised in warning of the consequences of the enthronement of the… Academe
- There's a large strain of irony in our human affairs... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents us from ever… Affair
- The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment. Cross
- I beg you to believe that life is not a process, it's a drama Beg
- All new news is old news happening to new people All
- The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact. Depravity
- I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest… Accepted
- One of the stupidest theories of Western life. Evolution
- The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island. Circumstances
- Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity. Beings
- Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore. Chaste
- The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment Cross
- Marx and Freud are the two great destroyers of Christian civilization, the first replacing the gospel of love by the gospel of hate, the other… Christian