"It is only by having desire thwarted, and……" — Theodore Dalrymple
"It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that men become fully human."
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Theodore Dalrymple
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23 Quotes by Theodore Dalrymple
Theodore Dalrymple has 23 quotes on this site.
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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…
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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…
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Turgenev saw human beings as individuals always endowed with consciousness, character, feelings, and moral strengths and weaknesses; Marx saw them…
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Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be…
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Nonjudgmentalism is not really nonjudgmental. It is the judgment that . . . everything is the same, nothing is better.…
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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…
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Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children…
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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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Love is the only way to grasp another human being in the innermost core of his personality. No one can…
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Quite often, as life goes on, when we feel completely secure as we go on our way, we suddenly notice…
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One does not become fully human painlessly.
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What if we discover that our present way of life is irreconcilable with our vocation to become fully human?
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