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Malcolm Muggeridge
Age: 87 †
Born: 1903
Born: March 24
Died: 1990
Died: November 14
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The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.
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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
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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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In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon.
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One of the stupidest theories of Western life.
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The Sputnik is just to me like a firework, a rocket, a new invention.
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The only people I've met in this world who never doubt are materialists and atheists.
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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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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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Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.
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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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We have now educated ourselves into a state of complete imbecility.
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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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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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Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.
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I doubt whether the Revolution has, in essentials, changed Russia at all. Reading Gogol, or Dostoevsky for that matter, one realizes how completely the Soviet regime has fallen back on to, and perhaps invigorated, the old Russia. Certainly there is much more of Gogol and Dostoievsky in the regime than there is of Marx.
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Sex on the brain is the wrong place to have it.
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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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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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A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.
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