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Theodore Dalrymple has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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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…
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It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that…
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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…
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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…
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Nonjudgmentalism is not really nonjudgmental. It is the judgment that . . . everything is the same, nothing is better. This is…
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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…
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Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence.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…
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I responded in what I thought was the most truthful, or least untruthful manner.
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As soon as we lose the moral basis, we cease to be religious. There is no such thing as religion over-riding morality.…
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My landscapes are not only beautiful, or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful.' By…
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The modern world is full of the old Christian virtues gone mad. The virtues have gone mad because they have been isolated…
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For some reason that only a sociologist might be able to accurately explain, the Brazilian Press was extremely unkind to me, reporting…
— Unknown Author
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Nonjudgmentalism is not really nonjudgmental. It is the judgment that . . . everything is the same, nothing is better. This is…
— Theodore Dalrymple
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Human nature is rarely so amusing as when trying to get a house off its hands. Women at this task can be…
— E. V. Lucas
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There's no right or wrong just truthful or untruthful.
— Robert Duvall
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Speak kind words to mankind and the unkind will attack you. Speak common sense using all your senses, and you will attacked…
— Suzy Kassem
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My landscapes are not only beautiful or nostalgic, with a Romantic or classical suggestion of lost Paradises, but above all 'untruthful'...
— Gerhard Richter
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Revealing secrets can bring us pain or get us into trouble, but worse pain and worse trouble await us if we keep…
— Eric Maisel
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Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere, and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were…
— Walt Disney
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