"Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it."
― Malcolm Muggeridge
Topic(s):
Society
More From Malcolm Muggeridge
- "One of the peculiar sins of the twentieth century which we’ve developed to a very high level is the sin of credulity. It has been said that when human beings stop believing in God they believe in nothing. The truth is much worse: they believe in anything."
- "I can say that I never knew what joy was like until I gave up pursuing happiness, or cared to live until I chose to die. For these two discoveries I am beholden to Jesus."
- "Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century."
More In Society
- "I hope we can be consummate artists as women or revolutionaries, or whatever women want to be, and also have love, not only for ourselves but from a partner."― Laura Dern
- "The very word ‘secrecy’ is repugnant in a free and open society; and we are as a people inherently and historically opposed to secret societies, to secret oaths, and to secret proceedings."― John F. Kennedy
- "When an individual is protesting society’s refusal to acknowledge his dignity as a human being, his very act of protest confers dignity on him."― Bayard Rustin