Quotes from 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.

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

Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night in a second-class hotel.

Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age purports to equip us to live and is prescribed as a universal remedy for everything from juvenile delinquency to premature senility.

Education, the great mumbo jumbo and fraud of the age.

Higher education is booming in the United States; the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.

The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it.

There is no such things as darkness, only a failure to see.

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

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

This life in us; however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare presume to put out, be his motives never so humane and enlightened; To suppose otherwise is to countenance a death-wish; Either life is always and in all circumstances sacred, or intrinsically of no account; it is inconceivable that it should be in some cases the one, and in some the other

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

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

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.

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

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.

The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and fulfillment.

I will lift up mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humble aspirin to the multi-coloured, 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.

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

Travel, of course, narrows the mind.

As Man alone, Jesus could not have saved us; as God alone, he would not; Incarnate, he could and did.

I will lift mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humble aspirin to the multi-coloured, 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.

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."