Malcolm Muggeridge

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Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge (Croydon, England 24 March 1903 –14 November 1990) was a British journalist, author, satirist, media personality, soldier-spy and latterly a Christian convert and writer. His father, H.T. Muggeridge, was a prominent Labour councillor in Croydon, South London and, for a short time, Member of Parliament for Romford in Ramsay MacDonald's second labour government. His mother was Annie Booler. Malcolm, one of five boys, attended Selhurst Grammar School and Selwyn College... full article at wikipedia

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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.

Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.

Civilization -- a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.

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

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.

In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.

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.

The most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex, alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.

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.

The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilizer. It is important to recognize that in our time man has not written one word, thought one thought, put two notes or two bricks together, splashed color on to canvas or concrete into space, in a manner which will be of any conceivable imaginative interest to posterity.

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