« All One Quotes · Malcolm Muggeridge's Page
One Quotes by Malcolm Muggeridge
- 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…
- 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…
- One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
- 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…
- 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…
- 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…
- One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been…
- History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want…
- 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…
- One of the stupidest theories of Western life.
- 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 stratosphere…
More One Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- Trust is the one most important base on which the beautiful building of strong friendship can be built. — Anurag Prakash Ray
- Poets are the only people to whom love is not only a crucial, but an indispensable experience, which entitles them to mistake… — Hannah Arendt
- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Grief makes one hour ten. — William Shakespeare
- A great city is not to be confounded with a populous one. — Aristotle