"Do I grow cleverer with age, or does……" — Theodore Dalrymple

Do I grow cleverer with age, or does the world grow more… - Theodore Dalrymple

"Do I grow cleverer with age, or does the world grow more stupid?"

— Theodore Dalrymple

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23 Quotes by Theodore Dalrymple

Theodore Dalrymple has 23 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

In claiming that prohibition, not the drugs themselves, is the problem, Nadelmann and many others - even policemen - have…
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…
It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized…
Turgenev saw human beings as individuals always endowed with consciousness, character, feelings, and moral strengths and weaknesses; Marx saw them…
Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be…
Nonjudgmentalism is not really nonjudgmental. It is the judgment that . . . everything is the same, nothing is better.…
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…
Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children…
Obesity is the result of a loss of self-control. Indeed, loss of self-control might be said to be the defining…

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To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
We live in an age of instant knowledge. And there's almost a sense of entitlement to that. — J. J. Abrams
Education is the best provision for old age. — Aristotle
Bashfulness is an ornament to youth, but a reproach to old age. — Aristotle
It is unbecoming for young men to utter maxims. — Aristotle
I love things that age well - things that don't date, that stand the test of time and that become… — Giorgio Armani
I knew from the age of 16 that I wanted to be a writer because I just didn't think I… — Paul Auster
The freethinking of one age is the common sense of the next. — Matthew Arnold
You can fake your age or mask it, but the passion that moves the characters has to be real. — Victoria Abril
In every age 'the good old days' were a myth. No one ever thought they were good at the time.… — Brooks Atkinson
Another belief of mine; that everyone else my age is an adult, whereas I am merely in disguise. — Margaret Atwood
For years I wanted to be older, and now I am. — Margaret Atwood

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