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Malcolm Muggeridge
Datum narození: 24. březen 1903
Datum úmrtí: 14. listopad 1990
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Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge byl britský novinář a spisovatel.
Citáty Malcolm Muggeridge
„Majestátně prostým gestem, díky nimž byl Napoleon tak úspěšný generál, umístila ve výloze svého salonu oznámení, že pro americké vojáky jsou vůně zdarma. Američané stáli frontu na Chanel N 5, a kdyby jí francouzská policie zkřivila vlas, vyvolali by skandál.“
— Malcolm Muggeridge
o Coco Chanel po osvobození Paříže
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„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 at its own educational institutions, and then providing them with facilities for propagating their destructive ideology far and wide, all at the public expense. Thus did Western Man decide to abolish himself, creating his own boredom out of his own affluence, his own vulnerability out of his own strength, his own impotence out of his own erotomania, himself blowing the trumpet that brought the walls of his own city tumbling down, and having convinced himself that he was too numerous, labored with pill and scalpel and syringe to make himself fewer. Until at last, having educated himself into imbecility, and polluted and drugged himself into stupefaction, he keeled over--a weary, battered old brontosaurus--and became extinct.“
— Malcolm Muggeridge, Vintage Muggeridge: Religion and Society
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„People think of faith as being something that you don't really believe, a device in helping you believe simply it. Of course that is quite wrong. As Pascal says, faith is a gift of God. It is different from the proof of it. It is the kind of faith God himself places in the heart, of which the proof is often the instrument...
He says of it, too, that it is the heart which is aware of God, and not reason. That is what faith is: God perceived by the heart, not be reason.“
— Malcolm Muggeridge, The End of Christendom
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„[Pascal] was the first and perhaps is still the most effective voice to be raised in warning of the consequences of the enthronement of the human ego in contradistinction to the cross, symbolizing the ego's immolation. How beautiful it all seemed at the time of the Enlightenment, that man triumphant would bring to pass that earthly paradise whose groves of academe would ensure the realization forever of peace, plenty, and beatitude in practice. But what a nightmare of wars, famines, and folly was to result therefrom.“
— Malcolm Muggeridge, The End of Christendom
