Malcolm Muggeridge
Malcolm Muggeridge
Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge, was a British journalist, author, media personality, and satirist. As a young man, Muggeridge was a left-wing sympathiser but he later became a forceful anti-communist. During World War II, he worked for the British government as a soldier and a spy. He is credited with bringing Mother Teresa to popular attention in the West and stimulating debate about Catholic theology. In his later years he was outspoken on religious and moral issues. He wrote two volumes of...
NationalityBritish
ProfessionJournalist
Date of Birth24 March 1903
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One of the stupidest theories of Western life.
Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it.
In his own lifetime Jesus made no impact on history. This is something that I cannot but regard as a special dispensation on God's part, and, I like to think, yet another example of the ironical humour which informs so many of His purposes. To me, it seems highly appropriate that the most important figure in all history should thus escape the notice of memoirists, diarists, commentators, all the tribe of chroniclers who even then existed
In the 19th century, the English were loathed. Every memoir that you read of that period, indicates the loathing that everybody felt for the English, the only difference between the English and Americans, in this respect, is the English rather liked being loathed and the Americans apparently dislike it intensely.
As Man alone, Jesus could not have saved us; As God alone, He would not; Made flesh, He could and did.
It is simply that America is very rich and very powerful and generally speaking everybody hates the rich and the powerful.
My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.
I beg you to believe that life is not a process, it's a drama
Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.
Travel, of course, narrows the mind.
American Women: How they mortify the flesh in order to make it appetizing! Their beauty is a vast industry, their enduring allure a discipline which nuns or athletes might find excessive.
A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.
An orgy looks particularly alluring seen through the mists of righteous indignation.
Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.