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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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Malcolm Muggeridge

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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Malcolm Muggeridge

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).