Malcolm Muggeridge Quotes About Authority

Quotes about: Authority

• I suppose that every age has its own particular fantasy: ours is science. A seventeenth-century man like Blaise Pascal, who thought himself a mathematician and scientist of genius, found it quite ridiculous that anyone should suppose that rational processes could lead to any ultimate conclusions about life, but easily accepted the authority of the Scriptures. With us, it is the other way `round

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Men, Age, Way

• I think that the essence of a free and civilized society is that everything in it should be subject to criticism, that all forms of authority, should be treated with a certain reservation.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Thinking, Essence, Criticism

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

• I regard myself as a religious... the temper of my mind as religious, and because I regard the temper of my mind as religious, I am profoundly skeptical about any form of human authority, any form of human self-importance.

  Malcolm Muggeridge

  Religious, Self, Mind

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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