Malcolm Muggeridge Short Quotes

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Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

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Old politicians, like old actors, revive in the limelight.

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There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

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Twilight of empire … a phrase which occurred to me long ago.

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A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.

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Good taste and humour…are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.

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Civilization – a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit vultures.

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

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An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation.

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

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The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfilment.

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Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

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In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false.

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

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In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.

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As Man alone, Jesus could not have saved us; as God alone, he would not; Incarnate, he could and did.

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

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

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The only ultimate disaster that can befall us, I have come to realise, is to feel ourselves to be at home here on earth.

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Higher education is booming in the United States; the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.

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

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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.

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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.

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

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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."

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Animistic savages prostrating themselves before a painted stone have always seemed to me to be nearer the truth than any Einstein or Bertrand Russell.

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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.

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I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

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The only thing that really teaches one what life's about the joy of understanding, the joy of coming in contact with what life really signifies - is suffering, affliction.

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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.

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