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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.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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Malcolm Muggeridge
Age: 87 †
Born: 1903
Born: March 24
Died: 1990
Died: November 14
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All happenings, great and small, are parables whereby God speaks. The art of life is to get the message. To see all that is offered us at the windows of the soul, and to reach out and receive what is offered, this is the art of living.
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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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The hallmark of religion is to distrust claims made for mortal men. It is in ages of great religious faith that great skepticism can find expression.
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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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It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.
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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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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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In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.
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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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Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
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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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A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.
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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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Civilization - a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.
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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 had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.
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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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