Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes

I hate government. I hate power. I think that man's existence, insofar as he achieves anything, is to resist power, to minimize power, to devise systems of society in which power is the least exerted.

Malcolm Muggeridge

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• Hate

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• The return to normality is a defeat for the terrorists.

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Defeat
  • Return
  • Terrorists

• The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Up
  • Control
  • Trust

• We ended up New Year's Eve playin' a show. My date had stood me up, and I remember walkin' back to my friends with, like, two minutes before midnight and thinkin', 'I'm not gonna have anybody to kiss on New Year's.' And there she was, standin' right there, and I remember kissin' her, and then that was game over.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Up
  • She
  • Friends

• I still keep my accent.

  

  Samantha Fox
  • Keep
  • Still
  • Accent

• There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.

  

  Quico Canseco
  • Up
  • Giving
  • Liberty

• We see entrepreneurship and small businesses and supply chains as a critical part of the economic growth and competitiveness agenda.

  

  Karen Mills
  • Small
  • Growth
  • See

• To be happy at home is the ultimate result of all ambition, the end to which every enterprise and labor tends, and of which every desire prompts the prosecution.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Home
  • Happy
  • Desire

• There's been a big buzz about the Charlatans in the last couple of years. I've heard the word Charlatans more in the last few years than I'd heard it for the previous 20 years. People would interview me for years and never even mention the Charlatans.

  

  Dan Hicks
  • People
  • Word
  • Interview

• Sometimes I do need to go to karaoke, sometimes I need to relax.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Sometimes
  • Need
  • Relax

• I know it sounds weird, but the food that I eat, it doesn't make a big difference, and it never has. So, I've saved a ton of money not buying a lot of alcohol, not going out to restaurants too much. So, I think it's part of our culture, and it's part of a social activity more than anything else.

  

  Aaron Patzer
  • Money
  • Culture
  • Food

• Comedy is not funny. Comedy is hard work and timing and lots and lots of rehearsals.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • Work
  • Funny
  • Comedy

• We should involve the whole world in the handling of this refugee crisis.

  

  Viktor Orban
  • World
  • Crisis
  • Refugee

• I think the main lesson that I have learned is that a good scientist is a humble scientist who is open-minded to listen to other scientists when they discover something.

  

  Dan Shechtman
  • Good
  • Humble
  • Listen

• I get to sing and act and write and create and produce for a living and share art with people, and I feel like a piece of that is in honor of those who came before me.

  

  Aaron Lazar
  • People
  • Art
  • Honor

• You can spend your money on art works and sit down and look at them. Or you can use your money to help people.

  

  Xavier Niel
  • People
  • Money
  • Art

• I love high-end designers, but a head-to-toe designer look for me is extremely boring. I've always mixed it up.

  

  Iris Apfel
  • Always
  • Boring
  • Designers

• Most music careers slowly but surely go down.

  

  Malik Bendjelloul
  • Music
  • Down
  • Go

• To me, a strong sense of self isn't believing in a lot.

  

  Sam Shepard
  • Strong
  • Me
  • Self

• When I was in bands, I always liked the demo best.

  

  Agnes Obel

• The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Experience
  • Power
  • Know

• From what has been said we can clearly understand the nature of Love and Hate. Love is nothing else but pleasure accompanied by the idea of an external cause: Hate is nothing else but pain accompanied by the idea of an external cause. We further see, that he who loves necessarily endeavors to have, and to keep present to him, the object of his love; while he who hates endeavors to remove and destroy the object of his hatred.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Love
  • Nature
  • Hate

• Brutish strength combined with the elegance of the gambit—it was the mark of a true genius. Anyone could achieve power with a gun or a knife. The perfect riddle commanded its recipient to act in one way, and one way only. There was no greater mastery—and that was what the Riddler sought to achieve over Batman—absolute mastery.

  

  Alexander C. Irvine
  • Power
  • Mastery
  • Gambit

• Singing is what got me into everything and made me fall in love with this industry.

  

  James Maslow Big Time Rush
  • Fall
  • Singing

• I hate government. I hate power. I think that man's existence, insofar as he achieves anything, is to resist power, to minimize power, to devise systems of society in which power is the least exerted.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Power
  • Society
  • Hate