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“It is the prerogative of the unthinkingly prosperous to sneer at the bourgeois virtues.” quote by Theodore Dalrymple — Download Open image

““It is the prerogative of the unthinkingly prosperous to sneer at the bourgeois virtues.””

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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 ago, that…

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“pride must be in the work, not the person.”

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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 corpses because…

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Orders can be benign or malign, but the habit of obeying them can become ingrained.

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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 beauty, an…

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“Facts are much more malleable than prejudices.”

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“Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most…

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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 was not ‘natural,’ just as Winston Smith concludes that life in Airstrip One (the new name for England in 1984) was unnatural. Other ways of life might have their problems, my Albanian and Rumanian friends would say, but…

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When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to…

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