History will see advertising as one of the real ev... -Malcolm Muggeridge

History will see advertising as one of the real evil things of our time. It is stimulating people constantly to want things, want this, want that.

Malcolm Muggeridge , Journalist
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Bad humor is an evasion of reality; good humor is an acceptance of it....
Travel, of course, narrows the mind....
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...
Every happening, great and small, is a parable whereby God speaks to us, and the art of life is to get the message....
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Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society....
My opinion, my conviction, gains immensely in strength and sureness the minute a second mind as adopted it....
Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century....
The pursuit of happiness, which American citizens are obliged to undertake, tends to involve them in trying to perpetuate the moods, tastes and aptitu...
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 a...

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We have plenty of examples from twentieth-century history where, out of fear of liberalism or Communism, religious conservatives made alliances with s...
I did 'Call of Duty Modern Warfare' as Gaz, then I did Ghost in 'Modern Warfare 2,' which has become one of the most iconic figures in the history of ...
There is a big push that we all are engaged in, in wanting to have the newest in innovation - and I think that's all really great. But I also feel tha...
I believe this generation should know their history and they should know that the struggle's not over yet....
Throughout history, cities have been associated with incredible bursts of creative energy - the Renaissance in Florence, or modernism in Paris. London...
I sort of mind living in a time when most of the literature is terribly personal. I suppose it's because I grew up on a love of history, philosophy, s...
There were no strategic mistakes that could affect Russia's history and it further development. No, there were no such mistakes. Tactical errors were ...
When I went to get my master's in creative writing at San Francisco State after Grinnell, I joined the moribund remnants of the Actor's Workshop, unti...
In the entire history of the human species, every tool we've invented has been to expand muscle power. All except one. The integrated circuit, the com...
Over the years, more than one reviewer has described my fantasy series, 'A Song of Ice and Fire', as historical fiction about history that never happe...