Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes - Page 5

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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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• 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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• I believe that the visit of the Queen to the United States is an admirable occasion to produce an historical, truthful, sincere, genuine analysis of how the British Monarchy evolved into its present situation.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Queens, Believe, Historical

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• Christianity . . . sees the necessity for man to have spiritual values and it shows him how to get at those through physical sacraments.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Spiritual, Men, Christianity

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• I beg you to believe that life is not a process, it's a drama

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Drama, Believe, Life Is

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

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Promise, Politician, Endeavor

  Malcolm Muggeridge (1966). “The Most of Malcolm Muggeridge”

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• In my view, Jan Masaryk was thoroughly corrupt, who bumped himself off because he saw at last where his moral cowardice and ideological 'Playboyery' had led him. I vividly remember visiting him in Washington, fat, slightly tight, coming into the room looking like a broken-down butler with his master, the little Communist, Clementis, - and saying in a loud voice: 'Has anyone seen an Iron Curtain? I haven't.' Well, he has now.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Suicide, Voice, Iron

  "Like it was: The Diaries of Malcolm Muggeridge". Book by Malcolm Muggeridge, p. 255, 1981.

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• Posterity will surely be amazed, and I hope vastly amused, that such slipshod and unconvincing theorizing should have so easily captivated twentieth-century minds and been so widely and recklessly applied.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Should Have, Mind, Century

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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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• Sex is the mysticism of a materialistic society - in the beginning was the Flesh, and the Flesh became Word... [it has] its own mysteries - this is my birth [control] pill; swallow it in remembrance of me!

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Sex, Remembrance, Pills

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• When St. Teresa of Avila says, 'Our life in this world is like a night in a second class hotel' I agree with her absolutely; and I think it's almost insulting to God and man to suggest that trivial events should give rise to deep concern on his part.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Night, Swag, Class

  "A Disciple of Christ: Conversations with Malcolm Muggeridge".

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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

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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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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• One of the stupidest theories of Western life.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Evolution, Theory, Stupidest

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• I will lift mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humble aspirin to the multi-colored, king-sized three deckers, which put you to sleep, wake you up, stimulate and soothe you all in one. It is an age of pills.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Kings, Humble, Humor

  The New Statesman 'London Diary' 3 August (1962)

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• Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Sex, Century, Substitutes

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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

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.

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  Serious

  Malcolm Muggeridge, Ian Hunter (2003). “The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge”, p.144, Regent College Publishing

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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

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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• Secrecy is as essential to intelligence as vestments and incense to a Mass or darkness to a spiritualist séance and must at all times be maintained, quite irrespective of whether or not it serves any purpose.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Darkness, Essentials, Purpose

  Chronicles of Wasted Time: The Infernal Grove (1973).

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

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Looks, Mist, Righteous

  'The Most of Malcolm Muggeridge' (1966) 'Dolce Vita in a Cold Climate'

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• Sex is the mysticism of materialism.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Sex, Materialism, Mysticism

  Malcolm Muggeridge, Ian Hunter (2003). “The Very Best of Malcolm Muggeridge”, p.74, Regent College Publishing

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• I accept the fact I am an unregenerate egghead.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Facts, Accepting, Eggheads

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• I'm much too modest a person.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Modest, Persons

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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