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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 a...

By Malcolm Muggeridge
Good taste and humour are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.

By Malcolm Muggeridge
Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

By Malcolm Muggeridge
Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

By Malcolm Muggeridge
St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.

By Malcolm Muggeridge
The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilizer. It is important to recognize that in our time man has not written one word, thought one thought, put two notes or two bricks together, splashed color on to canvas or concrete into space, in a manner which will be of any conceivable imaginative interest to posterity.

By Malcolm Muggeridge
Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.

By Malcolm Muggeridge
I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.

By Malcolm Muggeridge
There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

By Malcolm Muggeridge
Civilization -- a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.

By Malcolm Muggeridge
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.

By Malcolm Muggeridge
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.

By Malcolm Muggeridge
There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.

By Malcolm Muggeridge
There's nothing in this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.

By Malcolm Muggeridge
The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment.

By Malcolm Muggeridge
The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment.

By Malcolm Muggeridge
Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

By Malcolm Muggeridge