Malcolm Muggeridge

“Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.”

“The pursuit of happiness is a most ridiculous phrase: if you pursue happiness you'll never find it.”

“All new news is old news happening to new people.”

“Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.”

“The only thing that's new in this world is the history you don't know.”

“The depravity of man is at once the most empirically verifiable reality but at the same time the most intellectually resisted fact.”

“The orgasm has replaced the cross as the focus of longing and the symbol of fulfillment.”

“It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything.”

“Contrary to what might be expected, I look back on experiences that at the time seemed especially desolating and painful with particular satisfaction.”

“The greatest illusion of the twentieth century is the illusion of progress.”

“So, the final conclusion would surely be that whereas other civilizations have been brought down by attacks of barbarians from without, ours had the unique distinction of training its own destroyers.”

“The media, far from being a conspiracy to dull the public mind, is the creature of the public's mind.”

“Life is a drama, not a process.”

“It is only when we are very happy that we can bear to gaze upon the misery of others.”

“We look back on history and what do we see? Empires rising and falling, revolutions and counter-revolutions, wealth accumulated and wealth dispersed. It is a tale of sound and fury, signifying nothing.”