187 Quotes by Malcolm Muggeridge

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

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

The greatest artists, saints, philosophers, and, until quite recent times, scientists... have all assumed that the New Testament promise of eternal life is valid.... I'd rather be wrong with Dante and Shakespeare and Milton, with Augustine of Hippo and Francis of Assisi, with Dr. Johnson, Blake, and Dostoevsky than right with Voltaire, Rousseau, the Huxleys, Herbert Spencer, H. G. Wells, and Bernard Shaw.

Sex on the brain is the wrong place to have it.

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.

In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false.

What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.

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.