The idea that freedom is merely the ability to act upon one's whims is surely very thin and hardly begins to capture… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“The evils of envy and hatred masquerading as humanitarian idealism had darkened his life from its outset, stamping him as a man… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
There is nothing an addict likes more, or that serves as better pretext for continuing his present way of life, than to… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
Life is a biography, not a series of disconnected moments, more or less pleasurable but increasingly tedious and unsatisfying unless one imposes… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“It is curious how people’s attitude to the existence of a supposedly empirical phenomenon depends so completely on their political outlook. It… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“People with no experience of life except under communist regimes would tell me that they knew—though they were unsure how—that their life… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“Psychoanalysis, as well as death, becomes a bourn from which no traveler returns: and like anything indulged in for a long time,… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
It is clear to me that people often want incompatible things. They want danger and excitement on the one hand, and safety… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“security—the feeling that nothing could change seriously for the worse, and that the life that you had was invulnerable—was illusory and even… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
So what exactly are the rewards of resentment. It is always a relief to know that the reason we have failed in… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
I do not think it possible for anyone to get by in life without prejudice. However, the attempt to do so leads… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
Life is a biography, not a series of disconnected moments, more or less pleasurable but increasingly tedious and unsatisfying unless one imposes a purposive… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
Many young people now end a discussion with the supposedly definitive and unanswerable statement that such is their opinion, and their opinion is just… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“even received a few requests that I send medicine, since none was available in the local pharmacies—an admission, unthinkable a few years ago, that… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
There is nothing an addict likes more, or that serves as better pretext for continuing his present way of life, than to place the… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“In The Gulag Archipelago, for example, Alexander Solzhenitsyn remarks that Shakespeare’s evildoers, Macbeth notably among them, stop short at a mere dozen corpses because… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
Orders can be benign or malign, but the habit of obeying them can become ingrained. — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“A taste for kitsch among the well-to-do is a sign of spiritual impoverishment; but among the poor, it represents a striving for beauty, an… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
“People with no experience of life except under communist regimes would tell me that they knew—though they were unsure how—that their life was not… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to… — Theodore Dalrymple Copy Share Image
