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Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes

I think it [presidency of Dwight Eisenhower] came too late and I think that he is not on the wavelength of this dreadful time through which we’re living Picture Quote #1

When Dwight Eisenhower became president, I personally was delighted. I thought that that was a very good thing Picture Quote #1

I think that the essence of a free and civilized society is that everything in it should be subject to criticism, that all forms of authority, should be treated with a certain reservation Picture Quote #1

I believe that the visit of the Queen to the United States is an admirable occasion to produce an historical, truthful, sincere, genuine analysis of how the British Monarchy evolved into its present situation Picture Quote #1

The English have this extraordianry respect for longevity. The best example of this was Queen Victoria, a most unpleasant woman who achieved a sort of public affection simply by living to be an enormous age Picture Quote #1

People say that the Bible is a boring book...but they don’t say that about Shakespeare, because the people who teach Shakespeare are zealous for Shakespeare Picture Quote #1

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The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth Picture Quote #1

Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message Picture Quote #1

A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts Picture Quote #1

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society Picture Quote #1

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream Picture Quote #1

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up Picture Quote #1

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People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to Picture Quote #1

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience Picture Quote #1

All new news is old news happening to new people Picture Quote #1

Travel, of course, narrows the mind Picture Quote #1

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it Picture Quote #1

There is no such things as darkness, only a failure to see Picture Quote #1

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It’s very nearly impossible to tell the truth in television Picture Quote #1

An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation Picture Quote #1

Like a prisoner awaiting his release, like a schoolboy when the end of term is near, like a migrant bird ready to fly south... I long to be gone Picture Quote #1

The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact Picture Quote #1

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that Picture Quote #1

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it Picture Quote #1

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Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time Picture Quote #1

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I’ve known and of my own life, such as it is, I can’t recall any case of pain which didn’t, on the whole, enrich life Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity Picture Quote #1

I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation Picture Quote #1

In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise Picture Quote #1

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I think it [presidency of Dwight Eisenhower] came too late and I think that he is not on the wavelength of this dreadful time through which we’re living. (Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes) When Dwight Eisenhower became president, I personally was delighted. I thought that that was a very good thing. (Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes) I think that the essence of a free and civilized society is that everything in it should be subject to criticism, that all forms of authority, should be treated with a certain reservation. (Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes) I believe that the visit of the Queen to the United States is an admirable occasion to produce an historical, truthful, sincere, genuine analysis of how the British Monarchy evolved into its present situation. (Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes) The English have this extraordianry respect for longevity. The best example of this was Queen Victoria, a most unpleasant woman who achieved a sort of public affection simply by living to be an enormous age (Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes) People say that the Bible is a boring book...but they don’t say that about Shakespeare, because the people who teach Shakespeare are zealous for Shakespeare. (Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes) The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth. (Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes) Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. (Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes) A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts (Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes) Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society (Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes) Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream (Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes) One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up (Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes) People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to (Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes) Surely the glory of journalism is its transience (Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes) All new news is old news happening to new people (Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes) Travel, of course, narrows the mind (Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes) Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it (Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes) There is no such things as darkness, only a failure to see (Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes) It’s very nearly impossible to tell the truth in television (Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes) An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation (Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes) Like a prisoner awaiting his release, like a schoolboy when the end of term is near, like a migrant bird ready to fly south... I long to be gone (Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes) The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact (Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes) History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that (Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes) My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it (Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes) Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time (Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes) This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I’ve known and of my own life, such as it is, I can’t recall any case of pain which didn’t, on the whole, enrich life (Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes) 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 (Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes) Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity (Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes) I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation (Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes) In politics, as in womanizing, failure is decisive. It sheds its retrospective gloom on earlier endeavor which at the time seemed full of promise (Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes)

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