When the devil makes his offer (always open incidentally) of the kingdoms of the earth, it is the bordellos which glow so alluringly to most of us, not the banks and the counting-houses and the snow-swept corridors of power . . . Sex is the mysticism of a materialistic society - in the beginning was the Flesh, and the Flesh became Word; with its own mysteries - this is my birth pill; swallow it in remembrance of me! - and its own sacred texts and scriptures - the erotica which fall like black atomic rain on the just and unjust alike, drenching us, stupefying us. To be carnally minded is life!
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 MuggeridgeSecrecy is as essential to intelligence as vestments and incense to a Mass or darkness to a spiritualist sรฉance and must at all times be maintained, quite irrespective of whether or not it serves any purpose.
Malcolm Muggeridge