20th century Quote by Malcolm Muggeridge Download Open image “Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.” — Malcolm Muggeridge ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.2 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare 20th century Century Religion Religion 20Th Sex Sex Ersatz Sexuality Substitute Religion
Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
I was wondering today what the religion of the country is - and all I could come up with is sex. — Clare Boothe Luce Copy Share Image
“Newer religions, among them Christianity, saw the world as a battlefield between good and evil. In such a world, sex itself became dichotomized and… — Byrne R.S. Fone Copy Share Image
In an age in which greed and lust stalk the land like some Biblical plague, it is easy to view sex as just one… — Jennifer Stone Copy Share Image
All the great mystical religions put a strong emphasis on the redeeming qualities of sex. — David Bowie Copy Share Image
Sex is an aspect of human existence that has fallen prey in special measure to a very special form of theological science: the theological… — Uta Ranke-Heinemann Copy Share Image
All religions have something to say about sex, and it rarely coincides with scientific knowledge of sex and sexuality. — Darrel Ray Copy Share Image
Religions are maintained by people. People who can't get laid, because sex is the first great earthly pleasure. But if you can't get that,… — Bill Maher Copy Share Image
Sex is a game, a weapon, a toy, a joy, a trance, an enlightenment, a loss, a hope. — Sallie Tisdale Copy Share Image
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… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
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… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Marx and Freud are the two great destroyers of Christian civilization, the first replacing the gospel of love by the gospel of hate, the… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
I wouldn't have said that Anthony Eden was equipped by nature to deal with the situation in the world today. I would have said… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
This life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare presume to put out,… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
As Man alone, Jesus could not have saved us; As God alone, He would not; Made flesh, He could and did. — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
I think the inhabitants of the past are fighting hard to keep the rents they acquired in the 20th century. — Michael Bennet Copy Share Image
Corporate America is a 20th-century dinosaur, trembling on the edge of extinction, and the only way for you to have a genuinely secure future… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
America thrived in the 20th century because we made high school free. We sent a generation to college. We cultivated the most educated workforce… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The 20th century has been marked by cynicism, selfishness, greed, and the desire to please, all without changing the status quo. In the 21st… — Óscar Arias Copy Share Image
I've studied the lives of the 20th century's great businessmen and concluded self-confidence was instrumental in all their success. — Alex Spanos Copy Share Image
Universal literacy was a 20th-century goal. Before then, reading and writing were skills largely confined to a small, highly educated class of professional people. — Hugh Mackay Copy Share Image
The great wars of the 20th Century made it into the worst Century ever. — Stephen Ambrose Copy Share Image
That is very different from how it used to be in the 20th century. Media was very one way. There's a small little industry.… — Joseph Gordon-Levitt Copy Share Image
If you look back on the history of the 20th century, the 19th century or even to the ancien régime of the 18th, you… — Zygmunt Bauman Copy Share Image
Up to the 20th century, we can say that this whole period was an Earth epoch, 'Earth' meaning the riches of the earth, simple… — Lech Walesa Copy Share Image
I think this century more than any other really has seen the phenomenon of people being uprooted in such numbers, such a degree. They… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
If you look at that incredible burst of fantastic characters that emerged in the late 19th century/early 20th century, you can see so many… — Alan Moore Copy Share Image
