It's the circumstances of popular monarchy, the manner in which it's developed, and it is also the fault of the people who present her with this unquestioning adulation. In other words, it's their lack of a larger faith. Which makes them fasten onto, a purely earthly symbol.
Malcolm MuggeridgeTelevision was not intended to make human beings vacuous, but it is an emanation of their vacuity.
Malcolm MuggeridgeThe great advantage of the sort of education I had was precisely that it made practically no mark upon those subjected to it.
Malcolm MuggeridgeI myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity it has.
Malcolm Muggeridge