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Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes
«An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation.»
Author: Malcolm Muggeridge
| Keywords:
allure, alluring, indignation, mists, orgies, orgy, righteous, The Mist
«In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.»
«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»
Author: Malcolm Muggeridge
| About:
Christianity,
Civilization,
Responsibility
| Keywords:
destroyers, Freud, gospel, Marx, replacing, undermining
«The first thing I remember about the world...is that I was a stranger in it. This feeling, which is at once the glory and desolation of homo sapiens, provides the only thread of consistency that I can detect in my life.»
Author: Malcolm Muggeridge
| Keywords:
consistency, desolation, detect, detecting, detects, homo, Homo sapiens, provides, sapiens, stranger, thread
«The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island.»
Author: Malcolm Muggeridge
| About:
Truth
| Keywords:
contentedly, Empire, enchant, enchanted, enchanting, enchants, happily, island
«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 tranquilizer. It is important to recognize that in our time man has not written one word, thought one thought, put two notes or two bricks together, splashed color on to canvas or concrete into space, in a manner which will be of any conceivable imaginative interest to posterity.»
Author: Malcolm Muggeridge
| Keywords:
curing, enlightenment, etc., etc, jet propulsion, propulsion, splash, splashed, splashes, splashing, splitting, The Genius, tranquilizer, tranquilizers
«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»
Author: Malcolm Muggeridge
| About:
Television
| Keywords:
Abide With Me, brothel, Brothels, clients, edify, edifying, inmate, inmates, now and again, solaces
«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.»