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Thomas Malcom Muggeridge était un écrivain britannique. Journaliste, essayiste, il travailla pour le MI6 pendant la Seconde Guerre mondiale. Converti au christianisme à la fin des années 1960, il s'est fait connaître par ses multiples positions conservatrices, anticonformistes et très souvent polémiques. Il a fait connaître Mère Teresa par ses écrits et reportages TV, et, sous l'influence de cette dernière, s'est converti au catholicisme à la fin de sa vie. Wikipedia  

✵ 24. mars 1903 – 14. novembre 1990   •   Autres noms Malcolm Muggeridge
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“Dans la Mer des Sargasses du mensonge et de l’affabulation, comment puis-je, comment peut-on nager sans encombre? Comment voir le sens profond de ce qui est sous nos yeux et non de simples images? Comment nous débarrasser de notre barda hétéroclite, enlever le maquillage, lever le rideau de fer, éteindre les lumières du studio, arrêter les sonos et éteindre les caméras? Trouver le silence dans une discothèque ou de l’amour dans un striptease? Lire la vérité sur un téléprompteur, la saisir au vol sur un écran, l’attraper sur les ailes de la musique omniprésente? La voir en technicolor avec les bulletins d’information, l’entendre en live le long des autoroutes? Ce n’est pas dans le vent puissant qui s’abat sur les montagnes et qui fracasse les rochers, ni dans le tremblement de terre qui lui succède, ni dans les incendies qui viennent ensuite. C’est dans une petite voix qui parle doucement - si seulement l’on parvient à l’entendre.”

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La voix de la conscience

“Une des grandes faiblesses des esprits progressistes par opposition aux esprits religieux est qu’ils n’ont aucune conscience de la vérité en tant que telle, mais seulement d’une vérité définie par un opportunisme éclairé. Ce contraste est bien mis en lumière par l’opposition entre deux personnalités contemporaines : Simone Weil et Simone de Beauvoir, toutes deux d’une très grande intelligence et d’une très grande sincérité. Dans tous les terribles dilemmes moraux de notre temps, Simone Weil ne s’est jamais trompée tandis que Simone de Beauvoir, sans aucun doute avec les meilleures intentions, s’est trouvée plusieurs fois dans le camp des pires mensonges et des barbaries les plus monstrueuses de l’Histoire.”

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Philosophie et religion

“Les Anglais ont toujours tendance à se plonger avec nostalgie dans leurs vieux albums de photos qui leur rappellent des circonstances autrement plus grandioses que celles dont ils bénéficient aujourd’hui.”

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Royaume-Uni et royauté

“Peu d’hommes d’action ont réussi à faire une sortie élégante en temps voulu.”

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Politique

Malcolm Muggeridge: Citations en anglais

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

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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.”

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The Oddest Prophet – Søren Kierkegaard by Malcolm Muggeridge