Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time. Malcolm Muggeridge More Quotes by Malcolm Muggeridge More Quotes From Malcolm Muggeridge The hallmark of religion is to distrust claims made for mortal men. It is in ages of great religious faith that great skepticism can find expression. Malcolm Muggeridge expression religious men I don't think that it would make the slightest difference to life and to the aspects of life that interest me if we could go to the moon tomorrow, because I think what really makes life interesting is the big question "Why?" Malcolm Muggeridge differences moon thinking I think that President [Dwight] Eisenhower was... did the most marvelous job in the war, not really a military job: a public relations job, and it was essential that there should be a public relations job done in the post that he had. Malcolm Muggeridge military jobs war I think that once you've produced a conformist, a totally conformist society, a society in which there were no critics, that would in fact be an exact equivalent of the totalitarian societies against which we are supposed to be fighting in a cold war. Malcolm Muggeridge fighting war thinking The skyscrapers began to rise again, frailly massive, elegantly utilitarian, images in their grace, audacity and inconclusiveness, of the whole character of the people who produces them. Malcolm Muggeridge new-york character people It's very nearly impossible to tell the truth in television. Malcolm Muggeridge telling-the-truth impossible television Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society. Malcolm Muggeridge materialistic sex religion Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious. Malcolm Muggeridge serious Secrecy is as essential to intelligence as vestments and incense to a Mass or darkness to a spiritualist séance and must at all times be maintained, quite irrespective of whether or not it serves any purpose. Malcolm Muggeridge essentials purpose darkness A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts. Malcolm Muggeridge decrepit individual society The "pursuit of happiness" is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world. Malcolm Muggeridge misery pursuit-of-happiness world In the 19th century, the English were loathed. Every memoir that you read of that period, indicates the loathing that everybody felt for the English, the only difference between the English and Americans, in this respect, is the English rather liked being loathed and the Americans apparently dislike it intensely. Malcolm Muggeridge loathing century differences I think Winston Churchill is an appallingly bad politician, and always has been, that he hung onto power long after he should have done, and that his post-war administration was a disaster. Malcolm Muggeridge should-have war thinking An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation. Malcolm Muggeridge mist righteous looks I think that Sir Winston Churchill, in the period that the Germans occupied the Channel Ports, when the whole war hung in issue, fulfilled a role, which is as great as any role in our history. Malcolm Muggeridge issues war thinking It's the circumstances of popular monarchy, the manner in which it's developed, and it is also the fault of the people who present her with this unquestioning adulation. In other words, it's their lack of a larger faith. Which makes them fasten onto, a purely earthly symbol. Malcolm Muggeridge faults circumstances people I think it [presidency of Dwight Eisenhower] came too late and I think that he is not on the wavelength of this dreadful time through which we're living. Malcolm Muggeridge dwight-eisenhower too-late thinking Posterity will surely be amazed, and I hope vastly amused, that such slipshod and unconvincing theorizing should have so easily captivated twentieth-century minds and been so widely and recklessly applied. Malcolm Muggeridge century should-have mind Sex is the mysticism of materialism. Malcolm Muggeridge mysticism materialism sex I'm much too modest a person. Malcolm Muggeridge modest persons
