Malcolm Muggeridge

(19 votes)   An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation.

Malcolm Muggeridge
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(19 votes)   St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

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(209 votes)   There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.

Malcolm Muggeridge
1903-1990, British Broadcaster

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(132 votes)   The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.

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(80 votes)   The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilizer. It is important to recognize that in our time man has not written one word, thought one thought, put two notes or two bricks together, splashed color on to canvas or concrete into space, in a manner which will be of any conceivable imaginative interest to posterity.

Malcolm Muggeridge
1903-1990, British Broadcaster

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(75 votes)   Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity.

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1903-1990, British Broadcaster

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(53 votes)   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.

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1903-1990, British Broadcaster

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(46 votes)   In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.

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(45 votes)   One of the stupidest theories of Western life.

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1903-1990, British Broadcaster

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(38 votes)   Civilization -- a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.

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1903-1990, British Broadcaster

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(33 votes)   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.

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(20 votes)   Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.

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(19 votes)   Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

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(18 votes)   My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

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(16 votes)   People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

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