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~ Malcolm Muggeridge Quote
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 Quote
Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge Quote
The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge Quote
An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge Quote
Civilization -- a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge Quote
The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge Quote
like trying a man's finger for having pulled the trigger of a gun which murdered someone.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge Quote
Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge Quote
In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge Quote
One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
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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 Quote
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 Quote
It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge Quote
One of the stupidest theories of Western life.
~ Malcolm Muggeridge Quote