#malcolm muggeridge

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In some mysterious way it became clear to him that there was no darkness, only the possibility of losing sight of a light that shone eternally.

Conversion: The Spiritual Journey of a Twentieth Century Pilgrim by Malcolm Muggeridge

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Walter Duranty’s dispatch from Moscow of Friday, March 31, 1933

"In an age when the press served as the principal source of news, the best way to ensure that Soviet Russia received favorable coverage abroad was to accredit only those newspapers and journalists who gave evidence of a cooperative attitude. Since every major newspaper wanted a bureau in Moscow, most complied with the demand to assign there friendly correspondents. ...

Before cabling a dispatch, a correspondent had to secure approval of the Press Department of the Commissariat of Foreign Affairs. "One took them in," recalls the English correspondent and writer Malcolm Muggeridge, "to be censored, like taking an essay to one's tutor at Cambridge, watching anxiously as they were read for any frowns or hesitations, dreading to see a pencil picked to slash something out."

A Concise History of the Russian Revolution, by Richard Pipes

First composition of the Council of People's Commissars of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic.

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"Se, por acaso, você eliminasse o sofrimento, o mundo seria um lugar terrível, pois tudo aquilo que corrige a tendência humana de se sentir importante demais, de se gabar em excesso, desapareceria. O homem já é mau o bastante agora, mas seria absolutamente intolerável se nunca sofresse."

Malcolm Muggeridge, citado em O sofrimento nunca é em vão, de Elizabeth Elliot, pág. 24

[oldshowbiz]

1969.

Malcolm Muggeridge claimedarts funding was "breeding barbarians at public expense" because swear words were suddenly permissible on the live stage.

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The Christmas Party

[castyourline]

“We need to find God, and he cannot be found in noise and restlessness. God is the friend of silence. See how nature—trees, flowers, grass—grow in silence… The more we receive in silent prayer the more we can give in our active lives. We need silence to be able to touch souls. The essential thing is not what we say, but what God says to us and through us.”

— Teresa of Calcutta (quoted in Something Beautiful for God by Malcolm Muggeridge)

[sharpened--edges]

[T]here was something very loveable and sweet about [Orwell], and without any question, an element of authentic prophecy in his terrible vision of the future. His particular contribution to this sort of literature was his sense that a completely collectivised State would be produced not, as Wells had envisaged, in terms of scientific efficiency, not as Aldous Huxley had envisaged, in terms of a heartless but vivid eroticism, but to the accompaniment of all the dreary debris and shabbiness of the past […]

Malcolm Muggeridge, "In Muggeridge's Diaries" (selections from Like It Was), in Orwell Remembered, edited by Audrey Coppard and Bernard Crick (Ariel, 1984), pp. 269–70.

[thequietabsolute]

Once again the governing American passion to exclude the world — air, sound, light, food, sensuality. Everything is wrapped, packaged.

— Malcolm Muggeridge, 1962

[preacherman316]

Psalm 51

Malcolm Muggeridge (1903-1990) was a British born author, journalist, and media personality. Later in life he became an advocate for Christianity. He once related an occasion when on assignment in India of leaving his hotel for a swim in the nearby river. As he entered the water, he saw a woman across the river from nearby village who came for her bath. (more���) “”

[dorianroark]

I often pined for a total detachment from a society whose standards I despise and whose future prospects I regard as catastrophic, but in which I nonetheless have an inescapable stake.

If God is dead, somebody is going to have to take his place. It will be megalomania or erotomania, the drive for power or the drive for pleasure, the clenched fist or the phallus, Hitler or Hugh Hefner.

- Malcolm Muggeridge

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Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes on God, Life

Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes on God, Life Thomas Malcolm Muggeridge (24 March 1903 – 14 November 1990) was an English journalist and satirist.    “God, stay with me, let no word cross my lips that is not your word, no thoughts enter my mind that are not your thoughts”. There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see. Malcolm Muggeridge People do not believe lies because they have to, but…

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Rudolf Weyr (Austrian, 1847-1914) The power at sea, 1893 Michaelertrakt, Hofburg Palace Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream. - Malcolm Muggeridge

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Life of Brian debate from Friday Night, Saturday Morning, 9th November 1979

Malcolm Muggeridge: I started off by saying that this is such a tenth rate film that I don't believe that it would disturb anybody's faith--

Michael Palin: --Yes, I know you started with an open mind. I realise that. /S

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My Thoughts on "Holy Flying Circus" (2011) + my fave moments from the film!

Just gotta say.....HFC was pretty great! It was funny and moving and crazy and I ABSOLUTELY ADORE IT!! 10000/10 imo, would recommend!

Any uhh here's my fave things/moments/quotes from HFC that I loved when watching it! :

(btw uhh spoilers for anyone who hasn't seen the film yet, to which you should... ya'know watch it....cuz it's kinda cool actually)

-Charles Edwards as Michael Palin

-The animation sequences are pretty cool, huge props and shout-out to the team for recreating the Gilliam-esque animated sequences!

-Tom Fisher as Graham Chapman was pretty much the MVP of this film, I love his surreal yet pretty funny wiseness that he gives the other Pythons and every scene he was in, even for a few minutes of screen time, was pretty much GOATED ASF!! Would've loved to have seen more scenes of Fisher's Graham Chapman, but for every moment he was in, he absolutely chewed, nay, MUNCHED on that scenery with absolutely deLIGHT!!

-Phil Nichol as Terry Gilliam was pretty hilarious actually ngl! Nichol's portrayal really nailed down Gilliam's crazy and chaotic little goblin-like vibes, and I absolutely love Nichol's voice he did for Gilliam, it's very adorable imo 🥰

-I like the scene in the movie where the Pythons are at the pub, and John, Michael, Terry, Jonesy & Eric are drinking alcohol/beer 🍻, whereas Gray's the only one drinking orange juice 🍊. Idk, it's a nice little detail I noticed and I appreciate it being included in the film as it refers to Gray's alcohol intervention and that's he's really over the alcohol for the better and for the good of his health. It's a nice and lovely moment ❤️

-Charles Edwards as Michael Palin

-"Anyone here who refuses to have the film receive the X certificate, say "Eric is a money-grabbing bastard!" " , "Eric is a money-grabbing bastard!"

-"Christians and homosexuals can't be in the same room together. We're their natural predators"

-Darren Boyd as John Cleese hitting that islamaphobe with a tree branch. Not only a Fawlty Towers reference, but also kinda based actually 😎👍 plus I agree with @commonguttersnipe regarding this moment in that it's really great that the film makes the important point in differentiating between free speech and hate speech.

-Charles Edwards as Michael Palin

-Charles Edwards as Michael Palin finally snapping and just straight up bitch-slapping Malcolm Muggeridge in the face with a water jug during the "Friday Night, Saturday Morning" debate, and John cheering him on. Even if it turned out it was just Michael's fantasy dream sequence, it was pretty cool and based actually 😎👍

-"I do..love you....Mike" 🥺

-Rufus Jones as Terry Jones as Michael's Wife/Jones the Wife is really pretty 😍, and I love her and Michael's relationship in the film, it's so wholesome 🥰🥰

-The "John Vs Michael" puppet Star Wars parody fight sequence. It was really funny and kinda cool!!

-Charles Edwards as Michael Palin's mum

-Charles Edwards as Michael Palin having an argument with Geoffrey McGivern's "Would you like to sign my petition?" Character, it was really funny imo! 🤣

-"Can I talk to you about Life of Brian?" "Well, what makes you want to talk about "Life of Brian"?" "Great and uhh-uhh What??" pretty hilarious moment there 😂

And finally:

-Charles Edwards as Michael Palin

[mybeautifulchristianjourney]

"The only ultimate disaster that can befall us, I have come to realize, is to feel ourselves at home here on earth." – Malcolm Muggeridge

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The basic facts of mass hunger and death, although sometimes reported in the European and American press, never took on the clarity of an undisputed event. Almost no one claimed that Stalin meant to starve Ukrainians to death; even Adolf Hitler preferred to blame the Marxist system. It was controversial to note that starvation was taking place at all. Gareth Jones did so in a handful of newspaper articles; it seems that he was the only one to do so in English under his own name. When Cardinal Theodor Innitzer of Vienna tried to appeal for food aid for the starving in summer and autumn 1933, Soviet authorities rebuffed him nastily, saying that the Soviet Union had neither cardinals nor cannibals – a statement that was only half true. Though the journalists knew less than the diplomats, most of them understood that millions were dying from hunger. The influential Moscow correspondent of the New York Times, Walter Duranty, did his best to undermine Jones’s accurate reporting. Duranty, who won a Pulitzer Prize in 1932, called Jones’s account of the famine a “big scare story”. Duranty’s claim that there was “no actual starvation” but “only widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition” echoed Soviet usages and pushed euphemism into mendacity. This was an Orwellian distinction; and indeed George Orwell himself regarded the Ukrainian famine of 1933 as a central example of a black truth that artists of language had covered with bright colors. Duranty knew that millions of people had starved to death. Yet he maintained in his journalism that the hunger served a higher purpose. Duranty thought that “you can’t make an omelette without breaking eggs.” Aside from Jones, the only journalist to file serious reports in English was Malcolm Muggeridge, writing anonymously for the Manchester Guardian. He wrote that the famine was “one of the most monstrous crimes in history, so terrible that people in the future will scarcely be able to believe that it happened.” In fairness, even the people with the most obvious interest in events in Soviet Ukraine, the Ukrainians living beyond the border of the Soviet Union, needed months to understand the extent of the famine. Some five million Ukrainians lived in neighboring Poland, and their political leaders worked hard to draw international attention to the mass starvation in the Soviet Union. And yet even they grasped the extent of the tragedy only in May 1933, by which time most of the victims were already dead. Throughout the following summer and autumn, Ukrainian newspapers in Poland covered the famine, and Ukrainian politicians in Poland organized marches and protests. The leader of the Ukrainian feminist organization tried to organize an international boycott of Soviet goods by appealing to the women of the world. Several attempts were made to reach Franklin D. Roosevelt, the president of the United States. None of this made any difference. The laws of the international market ensured that the grain taken from Soviet Ukraine would feed others. Roosevelt, preoccupied above all by the position of the American worker during the Great Depression, wished to establish diplomatic relations with the Soviet Union. The telegrams from Ukrainian activists reached him in autumn 1933, just as his personal initiative in US-Soviet relations was bearing fruit. The United States extended diplomatic recognition to the Soviet Union in November 1933.

Timothy Snyder, Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin