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Man Quotes by Malcolm Muggeridge
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- [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…
- The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.
More Man Quotes
- Wherever the relevance of speech is at stake, matters become political by definition, for speech is what makes man a political being. — Hannah Arendt
- Man cannot be free if he does not know that he is subject to necessity, because his freedom is always won in… — Hannah Arendt
- I am a free man. I do not need to copy Petrarca or Boccaccio. My own genius is enough. Let others worry… — Pietro Aretino
- Let each man exercise the art he knows. — Aristophanes
- A man's homeland is wherever he prospers. — Aristophanes
- My best friend is the man who in wishing me well wishes it for my sake. — Aristotle
- At his best, man is the noblest of all animals; separated from law and justice he is the worst. — Aristotle
- The ideal man bears the accidents of life with dignity and grace, making the best of circumstances. — Aristotle