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Malcolm Muggeridge Inspirational Quotes (77)

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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.
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The dogmatism of science has become a new orthodoxy, disseminated by the Media and a State educational system with a thoroughness and subtlety far exceeding anything of the kind achieved by the Inquisition to the point that to believe today in a miraculous happening like the Virgin Birth is to appear a kind of imbecile.
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I don't like seeing people angry.
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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.
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The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none left over for works of imagination of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment.
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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?
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Whatever is fine and permanent in human achievement has been realised through individuals courageously facing the circumstances of their being and a society is civilised to the extent to which it makes this possible. Terrorism, which aims at putting out thespiritual light, is the antithesis of civilisation.
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An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation.
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The three most disastrous inventions of our time have been the birth control pill, the camera and nuclear weaponry. The first offers sex in terms of sterility, the second reality in terms of fantasy, and the third security in terms of destruction.
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He was not only a bore he bored for England.
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The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.
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The only people I've met in this world who never doubt are materialists and atheists.
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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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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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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.
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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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.
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All new news is old news happening to new people
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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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Higher education is booming in the United States the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.
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People say that the Bible is a boring book...but they don't say that about Shakespeare, because the people who teach Shakespeare are zealous for Shakespeare.
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Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
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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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