Theodore Dalrymple Quotes
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Do I grow cleverer with age, or does the world grow more stupid?
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In claiming that prohibition, not the drugs themselves, is the problem, Nadelmann and many others - even policemen - have said that "the war on…
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Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.
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There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.
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The loss of the religious understanding of the human condition—that Man is a fallen creature for whom virtue is necessary but never fully attainable—is a…
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It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that men become fully…
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Turgenev saw human beings as individuals always endowed with consciousness, character, feelings, and moral strengths and weaknesses; Marx saw them always as snowflakes in an…
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Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to flourish.
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Nonjudgmentalism is not really nonjudgmental. It is the judgment that . . . everything is the same, nothing is better. This is as barbaric and…
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When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.
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The need always to lie and always to avoid the truth stripped everyone of what Custine called 'the two greatest gifts of God-the soul and…
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Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children grow up very fast but…
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Obesity is the result of a loss of self-control. Indeed, loss of self-control might be said to be the defining social (or anti-social) characteristic of…
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So what exactly are the rewards of resentment. It is always a relief to know that the reason we have failed in life is not…
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Considering the importance of resentment in our lives, and the damage it does, it receives scant attention from psychiatrists and psychologists. Resentment is a great…
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To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.
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The bravest and most noble are not those who take up arms, but those who are decent despite everything; who improve what it is in…
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If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make…
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It is clear to me that people often want incompatible things. They want danger and excitement on the one hand, and safety and security on…
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All forms of human happiness contain within themselves the seeds of their own decomposition.
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