Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes

The practice of executing such offenders is a relic of the past and is inconsistent with evolving standards of decency in a civilized society.

Without winners, there wouldn't even be any civilization.

Suicide is possible, but not probable; hanging, I trust, is even more unlikely; for I hope that, by the time I die, my countrymen will have become civilised enough to abolish capital punishment.

The mark of our society as civilized will come when we embrace confidence in the power of redemption.

All that is great in man comes through work; and civilization is its product.

Society cannot do without cultivated men. As soon as the first wants are satisfied, the higher wants become imperative.

I think the degree of a nation's civilisation may be measured by the degree of enlightenment of its women.

If you are bathed In God's Forgiveness-Light, Then no dust of earth Will be able to cling to you.

Cowardice is impotence worse than violence. The coward desires revenge but being afraid to die, he looks to others, maybe to the government of the day, to do the work of defense for him. A coward is less than a man. He does not deserve to be a member of a society of men and women.

The demands of unbounded individualism need to be weighed in the light of inherent social constraints which can only change their form but cannot be eliminated without eliminating civilization.

Mankind's greatest achievements have come about by talking and its greatest failures by not talking. It doesn’t have to be like this.

In this world, which is so plainly the antechamber of another, there are no happy men. The true division of humanity is between those who live in light and those who live in darkness. Our aim must be to diminish the number of the latter and increase the number of the former. That is why we demand education and knowledge.

Most of the significant contributions that have been made to society have been made by people who were tired.

I've got a whole mantel just waiting for those awards to come, a whole big mantel. There's just so much available space. I've got the light fixtures hanging from the ceiling, all ready to shine on them. I dust it off every day.

Seas roll to waft me, suns to light me rise; My footstool earth, my canopy the skies.

What is our praise or pride but to imagine excellence and try to make it? What does it say over the door of heaven; but, homo (sapiens) fecit?

David Whitmer wrote: ' Joseph Smith would put the seer stone into a hat, and put his face in the hat, drawing it closely around his face to exclude the light; and in the darkness the spiritual light would shine.'

Be light-hearted, light-footed. Be of light step. Don't carry religion like a burden. And don't expect religion to be a teaching; it is not. It is certainly a discipline, but not a teaching at all. Teaching has to be imposed upon you from the outside and teaching can only reach to your mind, never to your heart, and never, never to the very center of your being. Teaching remains intellectual. It is an answer to human curiosity, and curiosity is not a true search.

Obedience allows God’s blessings to flow without constraint. He will bless His obedient children with freedom from bondage and misery. And He will bless them with more light.

If it were felt that the free development of individuality is one of the leading essentials of well-being; that it is not only a coordinate element with all that is designated by the terms civilisation, instruction, education, culture, but is itself a necessary part and condition of all those things; there would be no danger that liberty should be undervalued.

Management is the gate through which social and economic and political change, indeed change in every direction, is diffused though society.

Every great accomplishment of mankind has been preceded by an extended period, often over many years, of concentrated effort.

The American people expect the United States to keep terrorists where they belong, apart from civilized society and outside of America's borders

Americans want to win; bin Laden thinks he's winning now.