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
Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity.
I have had my television aerials removed. It is the moral equivalent of a prostate operation.
It's very nearly impossible to tell the truth in television.
On television I feel like a man playing piano in a brothel; every now and again he solaces himself by playing 'Abide with Me' in the hope of edifying both the clients and the inmates
Television was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.
St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.
For as we abolish the ills and pains of the flesh we multiply those of the mind, so by the time mankind are finally delivered from disease and decay - all pasteurised, their genes counted and re-arranged, filled with new replaceable plastic organs, a
There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see.
like trying a man's finger for having pulled the trigger of a gun which murdered someone.
I will lift mine eyes unto the pills. Almost everyone takes them, from the humble aspirin to the multi-colored, king-sized three deckers, which put you to sleep, wake you up, stimulate and soothe you all in one. It is an age of pills.
Whatever is fine and permanent in human achievement has been realised through individuals courageously facing the circumstances of their being; and a society is civilised to the extent to which it makes this possible. Terrorism, which aims at putting out thespiritual light, is the antithesis of civilisation.
A decrepit society shuns humor as a decrepit individual shuns drafts.
Humor is practically the only thing about which the English are utterly serious.
The great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it.