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# Theodore Dalrymple

(1949)   Journalist   United Kingdom

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Theodore Dalrymple is a journalist from the United Kingdom, best known for *Admirable Evasions*.

## Quick Facts About Theodore Dalrymple

Born October 11, 1949

Nationality United Kingdom

Profession Journalist

Notable works Admirable Evasions

## About Theodore Dalrymple

Anthony Malcolm Daniels, also known by the pen name Theodore Dalrymple, is a conservative English cultural critic, prison physician and psychiatrist. He worked in a number of Sub-Saharan African countries as well as in the East End of London. Before his retirement in 2005, he worked in City Hospital, Birmingham and Winson Green Prison in inner-city Birmingham, England.

##  Quotes by Theodore Dalrymple · Page 2

> [The aim of untold millions is to be free to do exactly as they choose and for someone else to pay when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/the-aim-of-untold-millions-is-to-be-free-to-do-exactly-as-they-choose/)

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> [“It is the prerogative of the unthinkingly prosperous to sneer at the bourgeois virtues.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/it-is-the-prerogative-of-the-unthinkingly-prosperous-to-sneer-at-the/)

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> [When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/when-every-benefit-received-is-a-right-there-is-no-place-for-good/)

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> [There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/there-is-nothing-that-an-intellectual-less-likes-to-change-than-his/)

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> [It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/it-is-only-by-having-desire-thwarted-and-thereby-learning-to-control/)

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> [“every psychic defence mechanism known to the modern psychologist makes its appearance somewhere in Shakespeare.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/every-psychic-defence-mechanism-known-to-the-modern-psychologist/)

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> [“Dreams may be the royal road to the unconscious, as Freud said they were, but if so it is a road that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/dreams-may-be-the-royal-road-to-the-unconscious-as-freud-said-they/)

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> [How many people does each of us know who claim to seek happiness but freely choose paths inevitably leading to misery?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/how-many-people-does-each-of-us-know-who-claim-to-seek-happiness-but/)

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> [There is something deeply attractive, at least to quite a lot of people, about squalor, misery, and vice. They are regarded as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/there-is-something-deeply-attractive-at-least-to-quite-a-lot-of/)

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> [There is nothing an addict likes more, or that serves as better pretext for continuing his present way of life, than to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/there-is-nothing-an-addict-likes-more-or-that-serves-as-better/)

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> [“even received a few requests that I send medicine, since none was available in the local pharmacies—an admission, unthinkable a few years…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/even-received-a-few-requests-that-i-send-medicine-since-none-was/)

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> [“And secretly I fell prey to the one of the besetting sins of western intellectuals, which normally I abhor: I began to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/and-secretly-i-fell-prey-to-the-one-of-the-besetting-sins-of-western/)

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> [The idea that man is a tabula rasa, or Mao's sheet of blank paper upon which the most beautiful characters can be…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/the-idea-that-man-is-a-tabula-rasa-or-mao-s-sheet-of-blank-paper-upon/)

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> [“I suspect, though I cannot prove, that in part this is the consequence of living in a world, including a mental world,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/i-suspect-though-i-cannot-prove-that-in-part-this-is-the-consequence/)

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> [“Behaviorism was but one instance of a terrible temptation for all intellectuals, namely that of nothing-but-ism. History is nothing but the clash…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/behaviorism-was-but-one-instance-of-a-terrible-temptation-for-all/)

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> [“Such bureaucrats can neither be hurried in their deliberations nor made to see common sense. Indeed, the very absurdity or pedantry of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/such-bureaucrats-can-neither-be-hurried-in-their-deliberations-nor/)

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> [“The young man regained consciousness in the ambulance, but his mother insisted that he give no evidence to the police because, had…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/the-young-man-regained-consciousness-in-the-ambulance-but-his-mother/)

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> [In claiming that prohibition, not the drugs themselves, is the problem, Nadelmann and many others - even policemen - have said that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/in-claiming-that-prohibition-not-the-drugs-themselves-is-the-problem/)

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> [“If language is not correct, then what is said is not what is meant; if what is said is not what is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/if-language-is-not-correct-then-what-is-said-is-not-what-is-meant-if-3/)

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> [“I remember watching rioters in Panama, for example, smashing shop windows, allegedly in the name of freedom and democracy, but laughing as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/i-remember-watching-rioters-in-panama-for-example-smashing-shop/)

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> [“Psychoanalysis, as well as death, becomes a bourn from which no traveler returns: and like anything indulged in for a long time,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/psychoanalysis-as-well-as-death-becomes-a-bourn-from-which-no/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/the-loss-of-the-religious-understanding-of-the-human-condition-that/)

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> [“The only thing worse than having a family, I discovered, is not having a family. My rejection of bourgeois virtues as mean-spirited…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/the-only-thing-worse-than-having-a-family-i-discovered-is-not-having/)

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> [“People with no experience of life except under communist regimes would tell me that they knew—though they were unsure how—that their life…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/people-with-no-experience-of-life-except-under-communist-regimes/)

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> [Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/feeling-good-about-yourself-is-not-the-same-thing-as-doing-good-good/)

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> [A curious reversal in the locus of moral concern has taken place: people feel responsible for everything except for what they do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/a-curious-reversal-in-the-locus-of-moral-concern-has-taken-place/)

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> [“argued, with the inventive cunning that each of us possesses when a pet theory of ours is refuted by the evidence,”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/argued-with-the-inventive-cunning-that-each-of-us-possesses-when-a/)

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> [“The worth of a cause is not necessarily proportional to the lengths to which people will go to promote it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/the-worth-of-a-cause-is-not-necessarily-proportional-to-the-lengths/)

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> [All forms of human happiness contain within themselves the seeds of their own decomposition.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/all-forms-of-human-happiness-contain-within-themselves-the-seeds-of/)

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> [“security—the feeling that nothing could change seriously for the worse, and that the life that you had was invulnerable—was illusory and even…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/security-the-feeling-that-nothing-could-change-seriously-for-the/)

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> [“A taste for kitsch among the well-to-do is a sign of spiritual impoverishment; but among the poor, it represents a striving for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/a-taste-for-kitsch-among-the-well-to-do-is-a-sign-of-spiritual/)

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> [“This is the lie that is at the heart of our society, the lie that encourages every form of destructive self-indulgence to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/this-is-the-lie-that-is-at-the-heart-of-our-society-the-lie-that/)

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> [“And accordingly, the adolescent sensibility is one that prevails in much of the art world, where the most adolescent of goals, transgression,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/and-accordingly-the-adolescent-sensibility-is-one-that-prevails-in/)

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> [“In The Gulag Archipelago, for example, Alexander Solzhenitsyn remarks that Shakespeare’s evildoers, Macbeth notably among them, stop short at a mere dozen…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/in-the-gulag-archipelago-for-example-alexander-solzhenitsyn-remarks/)

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> [“Everyone who experiences this weight of governmental interference and regulation knows how little any of it has to do with its ostensible…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/everyone-who-experiences-this-weight-of-governmental-interference-and/)

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> [The idea that freedom is merely the ability to act upon one's whims is surely very thin and hardly begins to capture…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/the-idea-that-freedom-is-merely-the-ability-to-act-upon-one-s-whims/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/obesity-is-the-result-of-a-loss-of-self-control-indeed-loss-of-self/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/considering-the-importance-of-resentment-in-our-lives-and-the-damage/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/childhood-in-large-parts-of-modern-britain-at-any-rate-has-been-3/)

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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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/childhood-in-large-parts-of-modern-britain-at-any-rate-has-been/)

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## Theodore Dalrymple by topic

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