Quotes from Malcolm Muggeridge

St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night in a second-class hotel.

Higher education is booming in the United States; the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.

The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it.

There is no such things as darkness, only a failure to see.

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.

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

There is no such thing as darkness only a failure to see.

As Man alone, Jesus could not have saved us; as God alone, he would not; Incarnate, he could and did.

Its avowed purpose is to excite sexual desire, which, I should have thought, is unnecessary in the case of the young, inconvenient in the case of the middle aged, and unseemly in the old.

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.

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