Quotes by Malcolm Muggeridge

The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them...

#Happiness

I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up...

#Happiness

Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.

#Humor

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

#Sex

One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.

#Age

The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances...

#Truth

It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I...

#Laughter

Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their...

#Television

Marx and Freud are the two great destroyers of Christian civilization, the first replacing the...

#Christianity, #Civilization, #Responsibility

This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human...

#Malcolm Muggeridge

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.

#Malcolm Muggeridge

The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to...

#Malcolm Muggeridge