Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes
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Its avowed purpose is to excite sexual desire, which, I should have thought, is unnecessary in the case of the young, inconvenient in the case of the middle aged, and unseemly in the old.
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The only people I've met in this world who never doubt are materialists and atheists.
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I'm much too modest a person.
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For as we abolish the ills and pains of the flesh we multiply those of the mind, so by the time mankind are finally delivered from disease and decay - all pasteurised, their genes counted and re-arranged, filled with new replaceable plastic organs, a
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I will lift mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humble aspirin to the multi-colored, king-sized three deckers, which put you to sleep, wake you up, stimulate and soothe you all in one. It is an age of pills.
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The only thing that really teaches one what life's about the joy of understanding, the joy of coming in contact with what life really signifies - is suffering, affliction.
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The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth.
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It's a sad thing about politics that most people get power too late, in that they differ from ladies of easy virtue who get their pleasures too early.
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I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity it has.
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I don't like seeing people angry.
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The price you pay for being powerful and being rich is to be hated.
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I accept the fact I am an unregenerate egghead.
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The essential feature, and necessity of life is to know reality, which means knowing God.
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I simply make this point, that the monarchy in so far, as it is identified with what is, in my opinion, an obsolete class structure, is making a mistake, and the task of those who are responsible for the conduct of the monarchical institution is to detach it from that class structure.