Malcolm Muggeridge - People Quotes

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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
There is a gulf between reality, which for Christians is Christ, and the world of fantasy that the media project.... Western people are being enormously misled by being induced to regard things on the screen as real, when actually they are fantasy. But, of course, God can use all things — even television, even you and me.

Malcolm Muggeridge
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
At the 20th Congress of British Communist Party,- usual slogans spread about the building-Marxism is the science of working-class power. Those present mostly lower middle class, few working class. On platform sat the Executve Committee, really deplorable faces. Unpleasant thought that in many parts of Europe, such people already in absolute power.

Malcolm Muggeridge
The probability is, I suppose that the Monarchy has become a kind of ersatz religion. Chesterton once remarked that when people [cease] to believe in God they do not believe in nothing, but in anything.

Malcolm Muggeridge
The only people I've met in this world who never doubt are materialists and atheists.

Malcolm Muggeridge