"People do not believe lies because they have……" — Malcolm Muggeridge
"People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to."
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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 Belief Quotes
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Strong beliefs win strong men, and then make them stronger.
— Richard Bach
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And above all things, never think that you're not good enough yourself. A man should never think that. My belief…
— Isaac Asimov
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Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise.
— Margaret Atwood
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I'm a strict, strict agnostic. It's very different from a casual, 'I don't know.' It's that you cannot present as…
— Margaret Atwood
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No poet or novelist wishes he were the only one who ever lived, but most of them wish they were…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If you believe what you like in the gospels, and reject what you don't like, it is not the gospel…
— Saint Augustine
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Seek not to understand that you may believe, but believe that you may understand.
— Saint Augustine
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It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live.
— Marcus Aurelius
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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be,…
— Jane Austen
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Don't believe what your eyes are telling you. All they show is limitation. Look with your understanding, find out what…
— Richard Bach
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The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the…
— Richard Bach
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