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…

— 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…

— Anthony Daniels

Where fashion in clothes, bodily adornment, and music are concerned, it is the underclass that increasingly sets the pace. Never before has…

— 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…

— 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,…

— 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…

— Anthony Daniels

Cruelty is like hope: it springs eternal.

— Anthony Daniels

If we can sympathise only with the utterly blameless, then we can sympathise with no one, for all of us have contributed…

— Anthony Daniels

On a film set everyone is very cool. Well, blase really.

— Anthony Daniels

“within an established totalitarian regime the purpose of propaganda is not to persuade, much less to inform, but rather to humiliate. From…

— Anthony Daniels

Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence

— Anthony Daniels

The real and most pressing question raised by any social problem is: "How do I appear concerned and compassionate to all my…

— Anthony Daniels

Civilization is the sum total of all those activities that allow men to transcend mere biological existence and reach for a richer…

— Anthony Daniels

Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of…

— Anthony Daniels

If all our political and intellectual elite offers by way of a national culture is "pop music, gambling, fashionable clothes or television,"…

— Anthony Daniels

Over the years, I've loved being on stage with an orchestra, waving my hands around.

— Anthony Daniels

Children in school are not students, they are pupils. It is typical of certain kinds of politicians that they should regard children…

— Anthony Daniels