Latest Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes from Interviews

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• The price you pay for being powerful and being rich is to be hated.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Powerful, Pay, Rich

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• In the 19th century, the English were loathed. Every memoir that you read of that period, indicates the loathing that everybody felt for the English, the only difference between the English and Americans, in this respect, is the English rather liked being loathed and the Americans apparently dislike it intensely.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Differences, Loathing, Century

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• It is simply that America is very rich and very powerful and generally speaking everybody hates the rich and the powerful.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Powerful, Hate, America

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• The Sputnik is just to me like a firework, a rocket, a new invention.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Sputnik, New Inventions, Rockets

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• I have absolutely no doubt that there is an intense anti-Americanism in all Western Europe, and I think the reason for that is a very, very simple one.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Simple, Thinking, Europe

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• I don't think that it would make the slightest difference to life and to the aspects of life that interest me if we could go to the moon tomorrow, because I think what really makes life interesting is the big question "Why?"

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Thinking, Moon, Differences

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• I am in a slight difficulty because I find myself in a minute minority there, in that this Sputnik didn't either interest me or frighten me, but that's because I don't, you see, believe that the circumstances of life are the important thing.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Believe, Important, Minorities

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• When Dwight Eisenhower became president, I personally was delighted. I thought that that was a very good thing.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  President, Dwight Eisenhower, Good Things

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• I think it [presidency of Dwight Eisenhower] came too late and I think that he is not on the wavelength of this dreadful time through which we're living.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Thinking, Dwight Eisenhower, Too Late

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• I think that President [Dwight] Eisenhower was... did the most marvelous job in the war, not really a military job: a public relations job, and it was essential that there should be a public relations job done in the post that he had.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Jobs, Military, War

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• I wouldn't have said that Anthony Eden was equipped by nature to deal with the situation in the world today. I would have said that he was portentous, sincere, honest and rather stupid.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Stupid, Eden, World

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• I have to say that I think that Anthony Eden was probably the most disastrous Prime Minister in our history, and I am not forgetting Lord North and a few people like that.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Thinking, Eden, People

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• Politicians get their power too late, and I think that he has inherited an impossible situation in which he is ill-equipped to deal.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Thinking, Impossible Situations, Too Late

• It's a sad thing about politics that most people get power too late, in that they differ from ladies of easy virtue who get their pleasures too early.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  People, Too Late, Virtue

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• I think that Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Intelligent, Men, Thinking

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• I think Winston Churchill is an appallingly bad politician, and always has been, that he hung onto power long after he should have done, and that his post-war administration was a disaster.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  War, Thinking, Should Have

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• I agree with... actually it was [Joseph] Stalin who said that [Winston Churchill] he was a man who changed the history of the world and I think, if he had not been there in 1940, it might very well have been the case that we would have collapsed like France, and I shall honor him always for that.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Men, Thinking, Honor

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• I think that Sir Winston Churchill, in the period that the Germans occupied the Channel Ports, when the whole war hung in issue, fulfilled a role, which is as great as any role in our history.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  War, Thinking, Issues

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• I regard myself as a religious... the temper of my mind as religious, and because I regard the temper of my mind as religious, I am profoundly skeptical about any form of human authority, any form of human self-importance.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Religious, Self, Mind

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• The hallmark of religion is to distrust claims made for mortal men. It is in ages of great religious faith that great skepticism can find expression.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Religious, Men, Expression

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• I accept the fact I am an unregenerate egghead.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Facts, Accepting, Eggheads

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• I think that once you've produced a conformist, a totally conformist society, a society in which there were no critics, that would in fact be an exact equivalent of the totalitarian societies against which we are supposed to be fighting in a cold war.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  War, Fighting, Thinking

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• I don't like seeing people angry.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  People, Angry, Seeing

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• I think that the essence of a free and civilized society is that everything in it should be subject to criticism, that all forms of authority, should be treated with a certain reservation.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Thinking, Essence, Criticism

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• I simply make this point, that the monarchy in so far, as it is identified with what is, in my opinion, an obsolete class structure, is making a mistake, and the task of those who are responsible for the conduct of the monarchical institution is to detach it from that class structure.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Mistake, Class, Tasks

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