Attracted to communism, Malcolm Muggeridge (British broadcaster) traveled to Russia as a journalist in the 1930's. He ended up writing about Stalin's famine in the Ukraine and Black Sea area that starved about 10 million people to death in less than two years. As a result, he lost employment and started writing novels.

On the other hand, Walter Duranty, writing for the New York Times, wrote a series of articles that denied that a famine even existed. For such work, he was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for journalism. Muggeridge later called Walter Duranty "the greatest liar I have met in journalism".

In 2008, two years after his death, on the 75th anniversary of the famine, he (and Gareth Jones) were awarded the Ukrainian Order of Freedom.

All other freedoms, once won, soon turn into new servitude. Christ is the only liberator whose liberation lasts forever. Malcolm Muggeridge (British broadcaster)

What will finally destroy us is not communism or fascism, but man acting like God. Malcolm Muggeridge (British broadcaster)

Another name for "socialism" is "humanism". That is, man following man's laws rather than man following God's laws.

• Nazi stands for "National Socialism". Nazi is a word not used by Hitler or Stalin.
• USSR stands for "Union of Soviet Socialist Republics". The Russian word "CCCP" ≈ "USSR"

A "religion" can be defined as a "belief system based on faith". Nothing is something. If one gets rid of all religion, one is left with what is often called "secular humanism". That is, a "religion" in and of itself based on human "opinion", "glory", "law" and "righteousness".

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The trouble with kingdoms of heaven on earth is that they're liable to come to pass, and then their fraudulence is apparent for all to see. We need a kingdom of heaven in Heaven, if only because it can't be realized. Malcolm Muggeridge (British broadcaster)

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. Malcolm Muggeridge (British broadcaster)

In the beginning was the Lie and the Lie was made news and dwelt among us, graceless and false. Malcolm Muggeridge (British broadcaster)

For us humans, everything is permanent - until it changes, as we are immortal until we die. Malcolm Muggeridge (British broadcaster)

People do not believe lies because they have to, but because they want to. Malcolm Muggeridge (British broadcaster)

Never forget that only dead fish swim with the stream. Malcolm Muggeridge (British broadcaster)

There is no such thing as darkness; only a failure to see. Malcolm Muggeridge (British broadcaster)

The only ultimate disaster that can befall us is to feel ourselves at home on this earth. Malcolm Muggeridge (British broadcaster)

The only people I've met in this world who never doubt are materialists and atheists. Malcolm Muggeridge (British broadcaster)

All new news is old news happening to new people. Malcolm Muggeridge (British broadcaster)

In the cycle of a great civilization, the artist begins as priest, and ends as a clown or buffoon. Malcolm Muggeridge (British broadcaster)

I never met a rich man who was happy, but I have only very occasionally met a poor man who did not want to become a rich man. Malcolm Muggeridge (British broadcaster)

Malcolm Muggeridge (British broadcaster) liked the part of William Blake's Songs of Innocence that goes as follows. "This life's dim windows of the soul / Distort the Heavens from Pole to Pole / And lead you to believe a lie / When you see with, not thro' the eye.".

The Bible says "hear the word of God" or "read the word of God". One can be more easily deceived with "watch the word of God" as in a video.