"A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit……" — Malcolm Muggeridge
"A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts."
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Malcolm Muggeridge
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82 Quotes by Malcolm Muggeridge
Malcolm Muggeridge has 82 quotes on this site.
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I will lift mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humble aspirin to the multi-colored, king-sized…
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Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.
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In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.
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Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
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Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age purports to equip us to live and is prescribed as…
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This life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare…
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Tranquilizers to overcome angst, pep pills to wake us up, life pills to ensure blissful sterility. I will lift up…
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It is only possible to succeed at second-rate pursuits - like becoming a millionaire or a prime minister, winning a…
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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or…
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Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
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What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.
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On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by…
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More Decrepit Quotes
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one of 36 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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The voting booth joint is a great leveler; the whole neighborhood - rich, poor, old, young, decrepit and spunky -…
— David Byrne
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If architects want to strengthen a decrepit arch, they increase the load that is laid upon it, for thereby the…
— Viktor E. Frankl
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Such is the depth of the Christian Scriptures, that even if I were attempting to study them and nothing else…
— Richard Baxter
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As a decrepit father takes delight To see his active child do deeds of youth, So I, made lame by…
— William Shakespeare
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An enterprising person is one who comes across a pile of scrap metal and sees the making of a wonderful…
— Jim Rohn
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When everybody owns something, nobody owns it, and nobody has a direct interest in maintaining or improving its condition. That…
— Milton Friedman
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O loss of sight, of thee I most complain! Blind among enemies, O worse than chains, dungeon or beggary, or…
— John Milton
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What shall I do with this absurdity- O heart, O troubled heart-this caricature, Decrepit age that has been tied to…
— William Butler Yeats
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There is room in our ranks for the old and decrepit, as well as the young and vigorous.
— Gerrit Smith
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I felt that the decrepit state of these once magnificent buildings, with their broken gutters, walls blackened by rainwater, crumbling…
— W G Sebald
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Many offenders are tracked for prison at early ages, labeled as criminals in their teen years, and then shuttled from…
— Michelle Alexander
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The enemies of living life; outdated little liberals, afraid of their own independence; lackeys of thought, enemies of the person…
— Fyodor Dostoevsky
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