"I hate government. I hate power. I think……" — Malcolm Muggeridge
"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 systems of society in which power is the least exerted."
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82 Quotes by Malcolm Muggeridge
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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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