Only dead fish swim with the stream. Malcolm Muggeridge
Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century. Malcolm Muggeridge
Surely the glory of journalism is its transience. Malcolm Muggeridge
History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that. Malcolm Muggeridge
One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up. Malcolm Muggeridge
The only ultimate disaster that can befall us, I have come to realize, is to feel ourselves at home here on earth. Malcolm Muggeridge
St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel. Malcolm Muggeridge
This life in us. . . however low it flickers or fiercely burns, is still a divine flame which no man dare presume to put out, be his motives never so humane and enlightened. To suppose otherwise is to countenance a death-wish. Either life is always and in all circumstances sacred, or intrinsically of no account; it is inconceivable that it should be in some cases the one, and in some the other. Malcolm Muggeridge
Good taste and humour are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore. Malcolm Muggeridge
There’s nothing in this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans. Malcolm Muggeridge
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. Malcolm Muggeridge