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

— Malcolm Muggeridge

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To paraphrase: Everything happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message.

Animistic savages prostrating themselves before a painted stone have always seemed to me to be nearer the truth than any Einstein or Bertrand Russell.

Chronicles of Wasted Time: The Green Stick (1972)

Good taste and humor are a contradiction in terms, like a chaste whore.

Few men of action have been able to make a graceful exit at the appropriate time.

The Most of Malcolm Muggeridge (1966)

The only ultimate disaster that can befall us, I have come to realise, is to feel ourselves to be at home here on earth.

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All religions, arts and sciences are branches of the same tree. All these aspirations are directed toward ennobling man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading the individual towards freedom.

Albert Einstein Moral Decay (1937)

Science and religion are two human enterprises sharing many features.

Freeman Dyson Infinite in All Directions (1988)

The moment the idea is admitted into society, that property is not as sacred as the law of God, and that there is not a force of law and public justice to protect it, anarchy and tyranny commence.

John Adams A Defence of the Constitutions of Government (1787)

The Puritan hated bear-baiting, not because it gave pain to the bear, but because it gave pleasure to the spectators.

Thomas Babington Macaulay History of England (1849)

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