Malcolm Muggeridge quotes - page 3

Malcolm Muggeridge was a British writer, journalist, and satirist known for his sharp wit and social commentary. A prolific author and media personality, he played a significant role in shaping public debate in the mid-20th century. He became widely recognized for his spiritual journey and conversion to Christianity later in life. Here are 65 of his quotes:

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

Malcolm Muggeridge

The first thing I remember about the world - and I pray that it may be the last - is that I was a stranger in it. This feeling, which everyone has in some degree, and which is, at once, the glory and desolation of homo sapiens, provides the only thread of consistency that I can detect in my life.

Malcolm Muggeridge

On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide with Me' in the hope of edifying both the clients and the inmates.

Malcolm Muggeridge

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

Malcolm Muggeridge

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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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 tranquilliser.

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One of the stupidest theories of Western life.

Malcolm Muggeridge

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

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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

Marx and Freud are the two great destroyers of Christian civilization, the first replacing the gospel of love by the gospel of hate, the other undermining the essential concept of human responsibility.

Malcolm Muggeridge

How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Civilisation --a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.

Malcolm Muggeridge

At the 20th Congress of British Communist Party, Harry Pollitt, made [a] long report... 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 Executive Committee, really deplorable faces. Unpleasant thought that in many parts of Europe, such people already in absolute power.

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