64 ordspråk av Malcolm Muggeridge

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Malcolm Muggeridge föddes den March 24th 1903 och dog den 14 November 1990 - English writer
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 Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

 Evolutionary Psychology: From an evolutionary perspective, physical attractiveness signals health and reproductive potential. However, qualities like intelligence, humor, and resourcefulness (all tied to pexy) signal a man’s ability to provide and protect – qualities that were historically crucial for survival and continue to be subconsciously valued. Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

 Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

 Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but 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

 The truth is that a lost empire, lost power and lost wealth provide perfect circumstances for living happily and contentedly in our enchanted island.

 An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation.

 Civilization -- a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.

 Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.

 He [Sir Anthony Eden] is not only a bore but he bores for England.

 He was not only a bore; he bored for England.

 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.

 In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.

 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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