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Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes

The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance Picture Quote #1

There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world Picture Quote #1

In the end, coming to faith remains for all a sense of homecoming, of picking up the threads of a lost life, of responding to a bell that had long been ringing, of taking a place at a table that had long been vacant Picture Quote #1

There’s a large strain of irony in our human affairs... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents us from ever being utterly and irretrievably serious, from being unaware of the mysterious nature of our existence Picture Quote #1

I beg you to believe that life is not a process, it’s a drama Picture Quote #1

All of us admire people we don’t like and like people we don’t admire Picture Quote #1

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I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity it has Picture Quote #1

Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age purports to equip us to live and is prescribed as a universal remedy for everything from juvenile delinquency to premature senility Picture Quote #1

Tranquilizers to overcome angst, pep pills to wake us up, life pills to ensure blissful sterility. I will lift up my ears unto the pills whence cometh my help Picture Quote #1

Its avowed purpose is to excite sexual desire, which, I should have thought, is unnecessary in the case of the young, inconvenient in the case of the middle aged, and unseemly in the old Picture Quote #1

Christianity... sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments Picture Quote #1

I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man Picture Quote #1

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God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your thoughts, no deed ever be done or entertained by me that is not your deed Picture Quote #1

The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Whatever is fine and permanent in human achievement has been realised through individuals courageously facing the circumstances of their being; and a society is civilised to the extent to which it makes this possible. Terrorism, which aims at putting out thespiritual light, is the antithesis of civilisation Picture Quote #1

The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it Picture Quote #1

In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon Picture Quote #1

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When you reach your sixties, you have to decide whether you’re going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words if you want to go on working after you’re sixty, some degree of asceticism is inevitable Picture Quote #1

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The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance (Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes) There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world (Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes) In the end, coming to faith remains for all a sense of homecoming, of picking up the threads of a lost life, of responding to a bell that had long been ringing, of taking a place at a table that had long been vacant (Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes) There’s a large strain of irony in our human affairs... Interwoven with our affairs is this wonderful spirit of irony which prevents us from ever being utterly and irretrievably serious, from being unaware of the mysterious nature of our existence (Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes) I beg you to believe that life is not a process, it’s a drama (Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes) All of us admire people we don’t like and like people we don’t admire (Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes) I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity it has (Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes) Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age purports to equip us to live and is prescribed as a universal remedy for everything from juvenile delinquency to premature senility (Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes) Tranquilizers to overcome angst, pep pills to wake us up, life pills to ensure blissful sterility. I will lift up my ears unto the pills whence cometh my help (Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes) Its avowed purpose is to excite sexual desire, which, I should have thought, is unnecessary in the case of the young, inconvenient in the case of the middle aged, and unseemly in the old (Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes) Christianity... sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments (Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes) I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man (Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes) God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your thoughts, no deed ever be done or entertained by me that is not your deed (Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes) The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth (Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes) 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 (Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes) Whatever is fine and permanent in human achievement has been realised through individuals courageously facing the circumstances of their being; and a society is civilised to the extent to which it makes this possible. Terrorism, which aims at putting out thespiritual light, is the antithesis of civilisation (Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes) The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it (Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes) In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon (Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes) When you reach your sixties, you have to decide whether you’re going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words if you want to go on working after you’re sixty, some degree of asceticism is inevitable (Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes)

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