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I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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Malcolm Muggeridge
Age: 87 †
Born: 1903
Born: March 24
Died: 1990
Died: November 14
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Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge
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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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The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.
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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!
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What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.
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In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.
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Sex is the mysticism of materialism.
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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.
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How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me
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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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My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
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One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.
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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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Higher education is booming in the United States the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.
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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.
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I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.
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I beg you to believe that life is not a process, it's a drama
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It's the circumstances of popular monarchy, the manner in which it's developed, and it is also the fault of the people who present her with this unquestioning adulation. In other words, it's their lack of a larger faith. Which makes them fasten onto, a purely earthly symbol.
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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.
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We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility.
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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
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