17 Quotes by Malcolm Muggeridge
- Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
- People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.
- Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
- The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment.
- 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.
- There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.
- Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
- 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.
- Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.
- One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
- Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.
- He was not only a bore; he bored for England.
- 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.
- How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me.
- My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
- Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
- Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
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