"If God is dead, somebody is going to……" — Malcolm Muggeridge
"If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner."
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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 Clenched Quotes
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People with clenched fists can not shake hands.
— Indira Gandhi
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You can approach the act of writing with nervousness, excitement, hopefulness, or even despair - the sense that you can…
— Stephen King
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We are but skin about a wind, with muscles clenched against mortality.
— Djuna Barnes
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We hold each other's lives in our open hands, not in clenched fists.
— Lloyd Alexander
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The most powerful demonstration of leadership is not a clenched fist of brute force but an open hand of humble…
— Mike Huckabee
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Truth is transcendent. There are many expressions of it and ways to glimpse it. We cannot hold it in our…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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When you are in a state of nonacceptance, it's difficult to learn. A clenched fist cannot receive a gift, and…
— Roger Delano Hinkins
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The link between intimate violence in the home and the international violence of terrorism and war is as tightly bound…
— Riane Eisler
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And then, there will be some black men who can remember that, with silent tongue, and clenched teeth, and steady…
— Abraham Lincoln
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Socialists cry “Power to the people”, and raise the clenched fist as they say it. We all know what they…
— Margaret Thatcher
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Love will not always linger longest with those who hold it in too clenched a fist.
— Alice Duer Miller
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We shall begin by launching the most spectacular peace movement on record. There will be electrifying overtures and unheard of…
— Unknown Author
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