I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who thought himself a mathematician and scientist of genius, found it quite ridiculous that anyone should suppose that rational processes could lead to any ultimate conclusions about life, but easily accepted the authority of the Scriptures. With us, it is the other way `round
Malcolm MuggeridgeThe English have this extraordianry respect for longevity. The best example of this was Queen Victoria, a most unpleasant woman who achieved a sort of public affection simply by living to be an enormous age.
Malcolm MuggeridgeThe only people I've met in this world who never doubt are materialists and atheists.
Malcolm MuggeridgeFew men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.
Malcolm MuggeridgeAs Man alone, Jesus could not have saved us; As God alone, He would not; Made flesh, He could and did.
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 MuggeridgeI simply make this point, that the monarchy in so far, as it is identified with what is, in my opinion, an obsolete class structure, is making a mistake, and the task of those who are responsible for the conduct of the monarchical institution is to detach it from that class structure.
Malcolm Muggeridge