Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
Malcolm Muggeridge
People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
Malcolm Muggeridge
St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.
Malcolm Muggeridge
The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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
The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they’re liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can’t be realized.
Malcolm Muggeridge
There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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
This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and… if I think of human beings I’ve known and of my own life, such as it is, I can’t recall any case of pain which didn’t, on the whole, enrich life.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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
One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.
Malcolm Muggeridge
He was not only a bore; he bored for England.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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
How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me.
Malcolm Muggeridge
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
It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.
Malcolm Muggeridge
My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.
Malcolm Muggeridge
Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
Malcolm Muggeridge
