187 Quotes by Malcolm Muggeridge

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.

I am in a slight difficulty because I find myself in a minute minority there, in that this Sputnik didn’t either interest me or frighten me, but that’s because I don’t, you see, believe that the circumstances of life are the important thing.

There’s nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.

All of us admire people we don’t like and like people we don’t admire.

It’s a sad thing about politics that most people get power too late, in that they differ from ladies of easy virtue who get their pleasures too early.

How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me.

The only people I’ve met in this world who never doubt are materialists and atheists.

The “pursuit of happiness” is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.

When you reach your sixties, you have to decide whether you’re going to be a sot or an ascetic. In other words if you want to go on working after you’re sixty, some degree of asceticism is inevitable.