I think that any person who is commenting on public affairs is entitled to point out those dangers.
Malcolm MuggeridgeWhen St. Teresa of Avila says, 'Our life in this world is like a night in a second class hotel' I agree with her absolutely; and I think it's almost insulting to God and man to suggest that trivial events should give rise to deep concern on his part.
Malcolm MuggeridgeWhatever is fine and permanent in human achievement has been realised through individuals courageously facing the circumstances of their being; and a society is civilised to the extent to which it makes this possible. Terrorism, which aims at putting out thespiritual light, is the antithesis of civilisation.
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 MuggeridgeThe most terrible thing about materialism, even more terrible than its proneness to violence, is its boredom, from which sex alcohol, drugs, all devices for putting out the accusing light of reason and suppressing the unrealizable aspirations of love, offer a prospect of deliverance.
Malcolm Muggeridge