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The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.

Malcolm Muggeridge

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Malcolm Muggeridge
Age: 87 †
Born: 1903
Born: March 24
Died: 1990
Died: November 14
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London
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History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.
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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.
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When Dwight Eisenhower became president, I personally was delighted. I thought that that was a very good thing.
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An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation.
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He was not only a bore he bored for England.
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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.
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.
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It has to be admitted that we English have sex on the brain, which is a very unsatisfactory place to have it.
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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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Higher education is booming in the United States the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.
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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.
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The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.
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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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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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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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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.
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What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.
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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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We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility.
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