Malcolm Muggeridge
Journalist, Author
1903 – 1990
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Who was Malcolm Muggeridge?
Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge was an English journalist, author, media personality, and satirist. During World War II, he was a soldier and a spy. As a young man, Muggeridge was a left-wing sympathiser but he later became a forceful anti-communist. He is credited with popularising Mother Teresa and Catholic theology, and in his later years became a religious and moral campaigner.
Famous Quotes:
- In retrospect, all these exercises in self-gratification seem pure fantasy, what Pascal called, licking the earth.
- Civilization -- a heap of rubble scavenged by scrawny English Lit. vultures.
- 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.
- This horror of pain is a rather low instinct and... if I think of human beings I've known and of my own life, such as it is, I can't recall any case of pain which didn't, on the whole, enrich life.
- 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.
- Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.
- Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
- The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized.
- St. Teresa of Avila described our life in this world as like a night at a second-class hotel.
- There's nothing is this world more instinctively abhorrent to me than finding myself in agreement with my fellow-humans.
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- Born
- Mar 24, 1903
Sanderstead - Also known as
- Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge
- Parents
- Spouses
- Katherine "Kitty" Dobbs
(1927 - 1990/11/14)
- Katherine "Kitty" Dobbs
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- England
- Profession
- Education
- Selwyn College, Cambridge
- University of Cambridge
- Employment
- Manchester Guardian
(1932 - ) - Secret Intelligence Service
(1942 - ) - Rector, University of Edinburgh
( - 1968/01)
- Manchester Guardian
- Lived in
- Moscow
(1932 - ) - Maputo
(1942 - 1943) - Algiers
(1943 - )
- Moscow
- Died
- Nov 14, 1990
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on July 23, 2013
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