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Malcolm Muggeridge (March 24, 1903November 14, 1990) was a British journalist, author and media personality. · Can we improve this biography? Write us your version

"One of the stupidest theories of Western life."

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

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"There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase the pursuit of happiness is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world."

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"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."

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"The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized."

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

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"The genius of Man in our time has gone into jet-propulsion, atom-splitting, penicillin-curing, etc. There is none over for works of imagination; of spiritual insight or mystical enlightenment. I asked for bread and was given a tranquilizer. It is important to recognize that in our time man has not written one word, thought one thought, put two notes or two bricks together, splashed color on to canvas or concrete into space, in a manner which will be of any conceivable imaginative interest to posterity."

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"The orgasm has replaced the Cross as the focus of longing and the image of fulfillment."

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"This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life."

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"Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time."

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