Malcolm Muggeridge

“One of the many pleasures of old age is giving things up.”

“There is no such thing as darkness only a failure to see.”

“One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we've developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. 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.”

“I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus.”

“The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitudes of youth.”

“History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.”

“Bad humor is an evasion of reality good humor is an acceptance of it.”

“Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.”

“Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.”

“My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it.”

“Travel, of course, narrows the mind.”