187 Quotes by Malcolm Muggeridge

Organized religion kills the living beauty of God.

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

The three most disastrous inventions of our time have been the birth control pill, the camera and nuclear weaponry. The first offers sex in terms of sterility, the second reality in terms of fantasy, and the third security in terms of destruction.

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

The essential feature, and necessity of life is to know reality, which means knowing God.

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 tranquilliser.

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

Tranquilizers to overcome angst, pep pills to wake us up, life pills to ensure blissful sterility. I will lift up my ears unto the pills whence cometh my help.

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.