Quote: 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. [Malcolm Muggeridge]
Quote: Civilization -- a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures. [Malcolm Muggeridge]
Quote: One of the stupidest theories of Western life. [Malcolm Muggeridge]
Quote: 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. [Malcolm Muggeridge]
Quote: 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. [Malcolm Muggeridge]
Quote: Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore. [Malcolm Muggeridge]
Quote: 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. [Malcolm Muggeridge]
Quote: The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment. [Malcolm Muggeridge]
Quote: In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth. [Malcolm Muggeridge]
Quote: Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time. [Malcolm Muggeridge]
Quote: Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society. [Malcolm Muggeridge]
Quote: Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity. [Malcolm Muggeridge]
Quote: St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel. [Malcolm Muggeridge]
Quote: The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth. [Malcolm Muggeridge]
Quote: One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up. [Malcolm Muggeridge]
Quote: Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message. [Malcolm Muggeridge]
Quote: There is no such thing as darkness only a failure to see. [Malcolm Muggeridge]
Quote: 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. [Malcolm Muggeridge]
Quote: 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. [Malcolm Muggeridge]
Quote: Bad humor is an evasion of reality good humor is an acceptance of it. [Malcolm Muggeridge]
Quote: Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century. [Malcolm Muggeridge]
Quote: Travel, of course, narrows the mind. [Malcolm Muggeridge]
Quote: There?s nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans. [Malcolm Muggeridge]
Quote: Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society. [Malcolm Muggeridge]
Quote: How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me [Malcolm Muggeridge]