If all our political and intellectual elite offers by way of a national culture is "pop music, gambling, fashionable clothes or television," then we can neither mount a convincing intellectual defense against our enemies, nor hope to integrate intelligent, inquiring,… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
The intellectual's struggle to deny the obvious is never more desperate than when reality is unpleasant and at variance with his preconceptions and when full acknowledgment of it would undermine the foundations of his intellectual worldview. — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
We are like creatures so dazzled with our own technological prowess that we no longer think it necessary to consider the obvious. — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
Blanket compassion will shift the distribution decisively towards the manipulative end of the spectrum, and may paradoxically decrease the compassion with which the genuinely… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it can be… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
Where fashion in clothes, bodily adornment, and music are concerned, it is the underclass that increasingly sets the pace. Never before has there been… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it. — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
The nearer emotional life approaches to hysteria, to continual outward show, the less genuine it becomes. Feeling becomes equated with vehemence of expression, so… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
In a democratic age, only the behavior of the authorities is subject to public criticism; that of the people themselves, never. — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
Having been issued the false prospectus of happiness through unlimited sex, modern man concludes, when he is not happy with his life, that his… — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image
The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man's existence. — Anthony Daniels Copy Share Image