Quotes from Malcolm Muggeridge

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

I think that Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late.

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

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

Surely the glory of journalism is its transience.

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

I wouldn't have said that Anthony Eden was equipped by nature to deal with the situation in the world today. I would have said that he was portentous, sincere, honest and rather stupid.

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.

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

The hallmark of religion is to distrust claims made for mortal men. It is in ages of great religious faith that great skepticism can find expression.

As Man alone, Jesus could not have saved us; As God alone, He would not; Made flesh, He could and did.

God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your thoughts, no deed ever be done or entertained by me that is not your deed.