"Nonjudgmentalism is not really nonjudgmental. It is the……" — Theodore Dalrymple
"Nonjudgmentalism is not really nonjudgmental. It is the judgment that . . . everything is the same, nothing is better. This is as barbaric and untruthful a doctrine as has yet emerged from the fertile mind of man."
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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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It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized…
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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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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Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence.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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To do Mohammed justice, his main attack was against the idolatries of Asia. Only he thought, just as the Arians…
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I also survived circumcision, a barbaric practice designed to remind you as early as possible that your genitals are not…
— George Carlin
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War is a barbaric tool of the war profiteers and Empires who employ them. War pits young people from the…
— Cindy Sheehan
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It is changing the face of terrorism. It is basically bringing it to the United States, to our great citizens.…
— Hugh Shelton
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Behind every beautiful fur, there is a story. It is a bloody, barbaric story.
— Mary Tyler Moore
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We need to recapture the gospel glow of the early Christians who were nonconformists in the truest sense of the…
— Martin Luther King, Jr.
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The death sentence is a barbaric act.
— Nelson Mandela
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The death sentence is a barbaric act . . . It is a reflection of the animal instinct still in…
— Nelson Mandela
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Americans have been the greatest destroyers of land of any race or people, barbaric or civilized
— Hugh Hammond Bennett
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First you destroy those who create values. Then you destroy those who know what the values are, and who also…
— Ryszard Kapuscinski
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Civilisation will not last, freedom will not survive, peace will not be kept, unless a very large majority of mankind…
— Winston Churchill
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In anthropology, which historically exists to 'give voice' to others, there is no greater taboo than self-revelation. The impetus of…
— Ruth Behar
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