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“[Riferito agli scritti di Simone Weil sulla scienza] Si legge, trovo, con una sorta di avido piacere, quasi saltando allegramente di frase in frase – come un uomo che salti da una lastra all'altra sopra un fiume ghiacciato che scorre lentamente.”

Malcolm Muggeridge

Origine: Da Agonies and Ecstasies, The Observer, 22 settembre 1968, p. 31; citato in Thomas R. Nevin, Simone Weil: Ritratto di un'ebrea che si volle esiliare, traduzione di Giulia Boringhieri, Bollati Boringhieri, Torino, 1997, p. 465. ISBN 88-339-1056-3

“Il cattivo umore è l'evadere dalla realtà; il buon umore è l'accettarla.”

Malcolm Muggeridge

Origine: Da Muggeridge al microfono, BBC, 1970.

“Mi sono sentito in grado di dichiararmi cristiano solo quando sono stato ragionevolmente sicuro che uno scrutinio della mia vita non avrebbe disonorato gli standard inconcepibilmente alti posti dai cristiani che ammiro, come Tolstoj e Pascal.”

Malcolm Muggeridge

Origine: It would be very wicked for any man to say that he had completely achieved mastery of his fleshly appetites, but I felt able to declare myself a Christian when I was reasonably sure that a scrutiny of my life would not disgrace the inconceivably high standards that Christians I admire — like Tolstoy and Pascal — have set. (da Jesus Rediscovered, Doubleday, 1979, p. 189)

Malcolm Muggeridge: Frasi in inglese

“I think that on the whole man would be living a more natural life if he were a vegetarian.”

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Malcolm Muggeridge

Interview with Rynn Berry

“Greene is a Jekyll and Hyde character, who has not succeeded in fusing the two sides of himself into any kind of harmony. There is conflict within him, and therefore he is liable to pursue conflict without.”

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Like It Was, p.249

“We foreign journalists in Moscow used to amuse ourselves, as a matter of fact, by competing with one another as to who could wish upon one of these intelligentsia visitors to the USSR the most outrageous fantasy…One story I floated myself, for which I received considerable acclaim, was that the huge queues outside food shops came about because the Soviet workers were so ardent in building Socialism that they just wouldn't rest, and the only way the government could get them to rest for even two or three hours was organizing a queue for them to stand in. I laugh at it all now, but at the time you can imagine what a shock it was to someone like myself, who had been brought up to regard liberal intellectuals as the samurai, the absolute elite, of the human race, to find that they could be taken in by deceptions which a half-witted boy would see through in an instant…I could never henceforth regard the intelligentsia as other than credulous fools who nonetheless became the media's prophetic voices, their heirs and successors remaining so still.”

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The Great Liberal Death Wish, lecture at Hillsdale College, Hillsdale, Michigan, USA, March 1979. Transcript in Imprimis http://imprimisarchives.hillsdale.edu/file/archives/pdf/1979_05_Imprimis.pdf May 1979 (pdf).

“I wonder whether, in the history of all the civilisations that have ever been, a more insanely optimistic notion has ever been entertained than that you and I, mortal, puny creatures, may yet aspire, with God’s grace and Christ’s help, to be reborn into what St Paul calls the glorious liberty of the children of God. Or if there was ever a more abysmally pessimistic one than that we, who reach out with our minds and our aspirations to the stars and beyond, should be able so to arrange our lives, so to eat and drink and fornicate and learn and frolic, that our brief span in this world fulfils all our hopes and desires.”

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Originally in a sermon delivered at Queen's Cross church Aberdeen, Scotland (26 May 1968), later included in Jesus Rediscovered (1969)

“Freedom is a mystical truth — it's expressed best in The Brothers Karamazov, the chapter when the Grand Inquisitor confronted the returned Christ. The freedom that Christ gave the world was the freedom of being an individual, in a collectivity, of basing one's life on love, as distinct from power, of seeking the good of others rather than nourishing one's own ego. That was liberation. And the Chief Inquisitor, who speaks for every dictator, every millionaire, every ideologue that's ever been, says we can't have it. Go away. Stay away.”

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“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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Chapter 1, Jesus Rediscovered (1969)

“Against the new leviathan, whether in the guise of universal suffrage, democracy, or of an equally fraudulent triumphant proletariat, [Kierkegaard] pitted the individual human soul made in the image of a God who was concerned about the fate of every living creature. In contrast with the notion of salvation through power, he held out the hope of salvation through suffering. The Cross against the ballot box or the clenched fist; the solitary pilgrim against the slogan-shouting mob; the crucified Christ against the demagogue-dictators promising a kingdom of heaven on earth, whether achieved through endlessly expanding wealth and material well-being, or through the ever greater concentration of power and its ever more ruthless exercise.”