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

  

  Carles Puigdemont
  • Return
  • Defeat
  • 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

• My dad has always been really helpful. He taught me that talent is a bonus, but persistence is what wins out.

  

  Zosia Mamet
  • Me
  • Talent
  • Taught

• 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

• There was a whole, sprawling world underneath us, filled with ugly, vicious, beautiful people. The line between the two places was thin, hardly a separation, and both ran on pain and blood and fear and death and joy and music. But for now, the sunset was enough.

  

  Brenna Yovanoff
  • Music
  • Death
  • Pain

• One shall be born from small beginnings which will rapidly become vast. This will respect no created thing, rather will it, by its power, transform almost every thing from its own nature into another.

  

  Leonardo da Vinci
  • Power
  • Nature
  • Small

• My given name was Zahra, which is the 'flower of the desert.' I don't look anything like the flower of the desert. My name was changed by my grandfather to Iman, which means 'have faith.' And it meant to have faith that a daughter would come.

  

  Iman
  • Faith
  • Daughter
  • Flower

• Business never rests.

  

  Andrew Marr
  • Business

• We have to change course. And we have to do so now. That is why I worked with my colleagues in Washington to pass the Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act.

  

  Debbie Wasserman Schultz
  • Why
  • Recovery

• 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