47 ordspråk av Malcolm Muggeridge
Malcolm Muggeridge
In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.
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It was a somber place, haunted by old jokes and lost laughter. Life, as I discovered, holds no more wretched occupation than trying to make the English laugh.
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like trying a man's finger for having pulled the trigger of a gun which murdered someone.
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Marx and Freud are the two great destroyers of Christian civilization, the first replacing the gospel of love by the gospel of hate, the other undermining the essential concept of human responsibility
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Marx and Freud are the two great destroyers of Christian civilization, the first replacing the gospel of love by the gospel of hate, the other undermining the essential concept of human responsibility
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My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
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Never forget that only dead fish swims with the stream
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On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide with Me' in the hope of edifying both the clients and the inmates
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One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up
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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.
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One of the stupidest theories of Western life.
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People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to
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People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century
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Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
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