--- title: "Best Theodore Dalrymple Sayings" description: "Anthony Malcolm Daniels, also known by the pen name Theodore Dalrymple, is a conservative English cultural critic, prison physician and psychiatrist." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b085/author-theodore-dalrymple-7084.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Theodore Dalrymple](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b085/author-theodore-dalrymple-7084.jpg) # Theodore Dalrymple (1949) Journalist United Kingdom **95** quotes in **505** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet 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 3 > [The need always to lie and always to avoid the truth stripped everyone of what Custine called 'the two greatest gifts of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/the-need-always-to-lie-and-always-to-avoid-the-truth-stripped/) [Theodore Dalrymple](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-dalrymple/) [Communicate](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/communicate/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/13d/theodore-dalrymple-7084_communicate_the-need-always-to-lie-and-always-to-avo_2472664.jpg) > [I've heard a hundred different variations of instances of unadulterated female victimhood, yet the silence of the feminists is deafening. Where two…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/i-ve-heard-a-hundred-different-variations-of-instances-of/) [Theodore Dalrymple](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-dalrymple/) [Conflict](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/conflict/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/22c/theodore-dalrymple-7084_conflict_i-ve-heard-a-hundred-different-variation_3165524.png) > [We all resort to the ad hominem from time to time: in human affairs, it is difficult to avoid it, and probably…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/we-all-resort-to-the-ad-hominem-from-time-to-time-in-human-affairs-it/) [Theodore Dalrymple](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-dalrymple/) [Ad](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/ad/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/026/theodore-dalrymple-7084_ad_we-all-resort-to-the-ad-hominem-from-tim_1612872.png) > [“The family, with all its undoubted miseries (as well, of course, as joys) has long been the object of hate of ambitious…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/the-family-with-all-its-undoubted-miseries-as-well-of-course-as-joys/) [Theodore Dalrymple](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-dalrymple/) [Family](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/family/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ae2/theodore-dalrymple-7084_family_the-family-with-all-its-undoubted-miseri_1423146.jpg) > [Nonjudgmentalism is not really nonjudgmental. It is the judgment that . . . everything is the same, nothing is better. This is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/nonjudgmentalism-is-not-really-nonjudgmental-it-is-the-judgment-that/) [Theodore Dalrymple](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-dalrymple/) [Barbaric](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/barbaric/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/38e/theodore-dalrymple-7084_barbaric_nonjudgmentalism-is-not-really-nonjudgme_1812165.png) > [It is clear to me that people often want incompatible things. They want danger and excitement on the one hand, and safety…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/it-is-clear-to-me-that-people-often-want-incompatible-things-they/) [Theodore Dalrymple](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-dalrymple/) [Clear](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/clear/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e0d/theodore-dalrymple-7084_clear_it-is-clear-to-me-that-people-often-want_2339929.jpg) > [“(Psychoanalysis, it seems, does wonders for a man’s prose style: it renders it labyrinthine without subtlety.) There is no place, then, for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/psychoanalysis-it-seems-does-wonders-for-a-man-s-prose-style-it/) [Theodore Dalrymple](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-dalrymple/) [Psychoanalysis](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/psychoanalysis/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/306/theodore-dalrymple-7084_psychoanalysis_psychoanalysis-it-seems-does-wonders-for_1856634.png) > [“Custine described them as ‘automata inconvenienced with a soul’: a description true, perhaps, of all bureaucrats fearful for their jobs but truest…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/custine-described-them-as-automata-inconvenienced-with-a-soul-a/) [Theodore Dalrymple](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-dalrymple/) [Bureaucrats](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bureaucrats/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/10d/theodore-dalrymple-7084_bureaucrats_custine-described-them-as-automata-incon_2381250.png) > [“It is curious how people’s attitude to the existence of a supposedly empirical phenomenon depends so completely on their political outlook. It…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/it-is-curious-how-people-s-attitude-to-the-existence-of-a-supposedly/) [Theodore Dalrymple](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-dalrymple/) [Big government](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/big-government/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/327/theodore-dalrymple-7084_big-government_it-is-curious-how-people-s-attitude-to-t_1500301.jpg) > [“(This is not to claim that horrific events may not have severe psychological consequences for those who experience them, only to say…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/this-is-not-to-claim-that-horrific-events-may-not-have-severe/) [Theodore Dalrymple](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-dalrymple/) [Consequences](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/consequences/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/519/theodore-dalrymple-7084_consequences_this-is-not-to-claim-that-horrific-event_2774000.jpg) > [“Metaphysics, said the late nineteenth-century idealist philosopher Bradley, is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe on instinct; but metaphysics…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/metaphysics-said-the-late-nineteenth-century-idealist-philosopher/) [Theodore Dalrymple](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-dalrymple/) [Bank account](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/bank-account/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/283/theodore-dalrymple-7084_bank-account_metaphysics-said-the-late-nineteenth-cen_909523.png) > [“Flea markets are also now legal in Cuba, and a petty trade in cast-off clothing and household goods takes place. Twelve years…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/flea-markets-are-also-now-legal-in-cuba-and-a-petty-trade-in-cast-off/) [Theodore Dalrymple](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-dalrymple/) [Cuba](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/cuba/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fe1/theodore-dalrymple-7084_cuba_flea-markets-are-also-now-legal-in-cuba_628713.png) > [“If it was difficult for a visitor to find anything to eat impromptu in Moscow, Havana, Tirana, Bucharest, or Pyongyang, it took…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/if-it-was-difficult-for-a-visitor-to-find-anything-to-eat-impromptu/) [Theodore Dalrymple](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-dalrymple/) [Little Effort](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/little-effort/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0d0/theodore-dalrymple-7084_little-effort_if-it-was-difficult-for-a-visitor-to-fin_1391419.png) > [“Like all pacifists, Zweig evaded the question of how to protect the peaceful sheep from the ravening wolves, no doubt in the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/like-all-pacifists-zweig-evaded-the-question-of-how-to-protect-the/) [Theodore Dalrymple](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-dalrymple/) [Hope](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/hope/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fec/theodore-dalrymple-7084_hope_like-all-pacifists-zweig-evaded-the-ques_1243688.png) > [“I sometimes astonish my patients by telling them that it is far more important that they should be able to lose themselves…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/theodore-dalrymple/i-sometimes-astonish-my-patients-by-telling-them-that-it-is-far-more/) [Theodore Dalrymple](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-dalrymple/) [Patience](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/patience/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3aa/theodore-dalrymple-7084_patience_i-sometimes-astonish-my-patients-by-tell_3175177.png) ## Theodore Dalrymple by topic [Life (11)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/theodore-dalrymple/) [People (10)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/theodore-dalrymple/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/theodore-dalrymple/#itemlist", "name": "Theodore Dalrymple Quotes", "numberOfItems": 15, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "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 the speech which communicates it.' 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It may well be, then, that the overall effect of the apparatus is negative rather than positive, even though it is positive in some cases. 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