The 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

 

The 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.


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

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

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There is something ridiculous and even quite indecent in an individual claiming to be happy. Still more a people or a nation making such a claim. The pursuit of happiness... is without any question the most fatuous which could possibly be undertaken. This lamentable phrase ''the pursuit of happiness'' is responsible for a good part of the ills and miseries of the modern world. -Malcolm Muggeridge
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People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to.

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Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream.

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Television was not invented to make human beings vacuous, but is an emanation of their vacuity. -Malcolm Muggeridge
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How do I know pornography depraves and corrupts? It depraves and corrupts me.

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