The dogmatism of science has become a new orthodoxy, disseminated by the Media and a State educational system with a thoroughness and subtlety far exceeding anything of the kind achieved by the Inquisition; to the point that to believe today in a miraculous happening like the Virgin Birth is to appear a kind of imbecile.
Malcolm MuggeridgeSex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
Malcolm MuggeridgeWhat will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God.
Malcolm MuggeridgeThere is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase - the pursuit of happiness - is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world.
Malcolm Muggeridge