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I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.

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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This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
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If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.
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I have to say that I think that Anthony Eden was probably the most disastrous Prime Minister in our history, and I am not forgetting Lord North and a few people like that.
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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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The price you pay for being powerful and being rich is to be hated.
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In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.
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I don't like seeing people angry.
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Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.
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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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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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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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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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The whole social structure is now tumbling down, dethroning its God, undermining all its certainties. All this, wonderfully enough, is being done in the name of the health, wealth, and happiness of all mankind.
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How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me
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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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Tranquilizers to overcome angst, pep pills to wake us up, life pills to ensure blissful sterility. I will lift up my ears unto the pills whence cometh my help.
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The only people I've met in this world who never doubt are materialists and atheists.
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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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The Sputnik is just to me like a firework, a rocket, a new invention.
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