"The skyscrapers began to rise again, frailly massive,……" — Malcolm Muggeridge
"The skyscrapers began to rise again, frailly massive, elegantly utilitarian, images in their grace, audacity and inconclusiveness, of the whole character of the people who produces them."
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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 Audacity Quotes
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With audacity one can undertake anything, but not do everything.
— Napoleon Bonaparte
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The method of the enterprising is to plan with audacity and execute with vigor.
— Christian Nestell Bovee
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The first quality that is needed is audacity.
— Winston Churchill
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If the leader is filled with high ambition and if he pursues his aims with audacity and strength of will,…
— Carl von Clausewitz
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Never forget that no military leader has ever become great without audacity.
— Carl von Clausewitz
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Tact in audacity is knowing how far you can go without going too far.
— Jean Cocteau
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The new school of art and thought does indeed wear an air of audacity, and breaks out everywhere into blasphemies,…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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Audacity, and again, audacity, and always audacity.
— Georges Danton
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What price would God demand from the churches for having the audacity to lighten the color of his son's skin,…
— Dick Gregory
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Beginning with audacity is a very great part of the art of painting.
— Winston Churchill
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Audacity, more audacity, always audacity.
— Georges Danton
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In every artist there is a touch of audacity without which no talent is conceivable.
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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