Old politicians, like old actors, revive in the limelight. The vacancy which afflicts them in private momentarily lifts when, oncemore, they feel the eyes of an audience upon them. Their old passion for holding the centre of the stage guides their uncertain footsteps to where the footlights shine, and summons up a wintry smile when the curtain rises.
Malcolm MuggeridgeSex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
Malcolm MuggeridgeI think that any person who is commenting on public affairs is entitled to point out those dangers.
Malcolm MuggeridgeThe depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.
Malcolm Muggeridge