Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes
An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation.
Quotes to Explore
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When the white man governs himself, that is self-government; but when he governs himself and also governs another man, that is more than self-government - that is despotism.
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Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
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Senegal needs a renaissance.
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My hair is such a statement that it's like a neon sign asking for trouble.
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You always back off at the exact moment when you're about to tell the other person exactly what she needs to hear.
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After all, if you believe that no one was ever corrupted by a book, you also have to believe that no one was ever improved by a book (or a play or a movie). You have to believe, in other words, that all art is morally trivial and that, consequently, all education is morally irrelevant. No one, not even a university professor, really believes that.
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Corruption does not so much rot the masses: it poisons Congress. Credit-Mobilier and money rings are not housed under thatched roofs: they flaunt at the Capitol. As usual in chemistry, the scum floats uppermost.
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I've slipped on occasion into the realm of irresponsible invective, but I try to avoid it and generally recant when I fall short. Because name-calling does nothing to improve understanding or move the political debate forward.
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I am a bit of a solitude person - a solitary personality. I like being on my own. I don't have any major friendships or relationships with people.
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For me it was sort of career suicide to work in color, but I did it because I perceived myself from an early stage to be interested in seasonality - the changing of the seasons - that's what I deeply loved.
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Controversy is always a beautiful thing. I love controversy and I try to fan it as much as I can without having my husband's head pop off!
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It is ironic you could make an animated film about a dog that's a universal character, but God forbid it be a human being who is not a man.
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It's great to get paid for what you love doing most. To enjoy your work. And to follow that. It's important.
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I grew up in a military family, and there's something about that military-style uniform, all cleaned up, a brutal control effort the military necessarily breeds.
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Growing up, I wasn't an athlete or anything like that. The only place I felt like I belonged was in the theater.
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If a lobbyist sets up shop, or a lawyer, in which they're receiving income through what is something like a tax loophole so that it's not counting as corporate income, that is what this is counting as a small business.
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Sometimes this going out in obedience to God's command is more dramatic than at other times... sometimes more spectacular... sometimes more brave... but always it is a venture into the unknown.
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Liberty is on the march, and this year promises to be a great year in European history. Our Government is blind enough, and the Parliamentary majorities are more regarded than opinion out of doors. We must have another League of some kind, and our aristocracy must be made to submit again.
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Certainly, my friends and the common narrative is people are trying to shore up their own lives with regards to family planning and reproduction.
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I took her hand in mine, and we went out of the ruined place; and, as the morning mists had risen long ago when I first left the forge, so, the evening mists were rising now, and in all the broad expanse of tranquil light they showed to me, I saw no shadow of another parting from her.
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The problem with righteous indignation is that even when you're right, you're still left feeling indignant.
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We had no idea that this would arouse so much indignation and irritation in the Muslim world. That's what we're apologizing for.
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An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation.
