Premature Adulthood Quotes by Anthony Daniels

We are like creatures so dazzled with our own technological prowess that we no longer think it necessary to consider the obvious.

— Anthony Daniels

[There] is no class so dangerous as the idle educated.

— Anthony Daniels

For intellectuals, everyone's mind is closed but their own.

— Anthony Daniels

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

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

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

Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.

— Anthony Daniels

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

All I ever wanted to do was act.

— Anthony Daniels

In a democratic age, only the behavior of the authorities is subject to public criticism; that of the people themselves, never.

— Anthony Daniels

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

The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man's existence.

— Anthony Daniels

Modernity is the most transient of qualities.

— Anthony Daniels

Mediocrity triumphs because it presents itself as democratic and because it is dull, and so for many does not seem worth struggling against.

— Anthony Daniels

Cruelty is like hope: it springs eternal.

— Anthony Daniels