"Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the……" — Malcolm Muggeridge
"Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society."
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Malcolm Muggeridge
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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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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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Its avowed purpose is to excite sexual desire, which, I should have thought, is unnecessary in the case of the…
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More Materialism Quotes
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The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at…
— James A. Baldwin
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The chief difficulty which prevents men of science from believing in divine as well as in nature Spirits is their…
— H. P. Blavatsky
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Materialism coarsens and petrifies everything, making everything vulgar, and every truth false.
— Henri Frederic Amiel
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It is quite an old-fashioned fallacy to suppose that our objection to scepticism is that it removes the discipline from…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Universal appreciation of art... belongs to those countries and those ages which are not, or were not, ruled by materialism.…
— Walter J. Phillips
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Some atheists are quite explicit that their atheism comes first. One of the most famous is Richard Lewontin, a professor…
— John Lennox
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To talk of immaterial existences is to talk of nothings. To say that the human soul, angels, god, are immaterial,…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Do not be too quick to condemn the man who no longer believes in God: for it is perhaps your…
— Thomas Merton
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Mark, therefore, the ordinary theory of practical religion, what it leads to. Charity is great, but the moment you say…
— Swami Vivekananda
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Walking the spiritual path properly is a very subtle process; it is not something to jump into naively. There are…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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It seems mutants have something in their lives called gravy. They know truth, but it is buried under thickening and…
— Marlo Morgan
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He who disdains the fall in infant mortality and the gradual disappearance of famines and plagues may cast the first…
— Ludwig von Mises
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