« All Our Control Quotes
·
Theodore Dalrymple's Page
Our Control Quotes by Theodore Dalrymple
1 Our Control quote by Theodore Dalrymple
More Quotes by Theodore Dalrymple
Theodore Dalrymple has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
Do I grow cleverer with age, or does the world grow more stupid?
-
In claiming that prohibition, not the drugs themselves, is the problem, Nadelmann and many others - even policemen - have said that…
-
Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.
-
There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.
-
The loss of the religious understanding of the human condition—that Man is a fallen creature for whom virtue is necessary but never…
-
It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that…
-
Turgenev saw human beings as individuals always endowed with consciousness, character, feelings, and moral strengths and weaknesses; Marx saw them always as…
-
Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to…
-
Nonjudgmentalism is not really nonjudgmental. It is the judgment that . . . everything is the same, nothing is better. This is…
-
When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.
-
The need always to lie and always to avoid the truth stripped everyone of what Custine called 'the two greatest gifts of…
-
Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children grow up…
See all 23 quotes by Theodore Dalrymple »
More Our Control Quotes
Popular Our Control quotes from across the collection:
-
Humanity cannot afford to acknowledge all of the blood that it spills and the destruction it inflicts on the world in its…
— Jeremy Rifkin
-
The future is not completely beyond our control. It is the work of our own hands.
— Robert Kennedy
-
Time management is an oxymoron. Time is beyond our control, and the clock keeps ticking regardless of how we lead our lives.…
— John C. Maxwell
-
I realized that most thoughts are impersonal happenings, like self-assembling machines. Unless we train ourselves, the thoughts passing through our mind have…
— Daniel Pinchbeck
-
It means you never know what's going to happen,' I said. 'You do your best, then take your chances. Everything else is…
— Dick Van Dyke
-
We are constantly telling ourselves what we most want to know, and at the same time are deaf to it. Why does…
— Bonnie Friedman
-
Sometimes the world is just out of our control and we like to blames ourselves so that we can make sense out…
— Unknown Author
-
Society really seems to have developed an unquestioning obedience towards spooky types… Did we get to where we are today via a…
— Edward Snowden
-
Happiness and freedom begin with a clear understanding of one principle: Some things are within our control, and some things are not.
— Epictetus
-
We try to fix the outside so much, but our control of the outer world is limited, temporary, and often, illusory.
— Matthieu Ricard
-
I like to think that we’re not defined by what happens to us…because so many times they’re beyond our control. I like…
— Elizabeth Smart
-
Death will never be pretty - its sights and smells too close and crude. And it will never come under our control:…
— Nancy Gibbs
See all Our Control Quotes »
Browse Theodore Dalrymple Quotes by Category