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As the Habsburg military used to say, the situation is catastrophic, but not serious.
— Theodore Dalrymple
I learned early in my life that if people were offered the opportunity of tranquility, they often reject it and choose torment instead.
— Theodore Dalrymple
The worth of a cause is not necessarily proportional to the lengths to which people will go to promote it.
— Theodore Dalrymple
A curious reversal in the locus of moral concern has taken place: people feel responsible for everything except for what they do.
— Theodore Dalrymple
Political correctness is often the attempt to make sentimentality socially obligatory or legally enforceable.
— Theodore Dalrymple
When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.
— Theodore Dalrymple
The road to heaven is paved with fulfilled desires, and to hell with frustrated ones.
— Theodore Dalrymple
every psychic defence mechanism known to the modern psychologist makes its appearance somewhere in Shakespeare.
— Theodore Dalrymple
The aim of untold millions is to be free to do exactly as they choose and for someone else to pay when things go wrong.
— Theodore Dalrymple
The world has a lot to thank murderers for, when you come to think of it.
— Theodore Dalrymple
Orders can be benign or malign, but the habit of obeying them can become ingrained.
— Theodore Dalrymple
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[T]he scale of a man's evil is not entirely to be measured by its practical consequences. Men commit evil within the scope available to them.
— Theodore Dalrymple
Parents are perhaps the most common object of resentment, the people who are most frequently blamed for all our failings and failures alike.
— Theodore Dalrymple
There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.
— Theodore Dalrymple
Facts are much more malleable than prejudices.
— Theodore Dalrymple
How can one respect people as members of the human race unless one holds them to a standard of conduct and truthfulness?
— 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.
— Theodore Dalrymple
How many people does each of us know who claim to seek happiness but freely choose paths inevitably leading to misery?
— Theodore Dalrymple
Political correctness is the means by which we try to control others; decency is the means by which we try to control ourselves.
— Theodore Dalrymple
All forms of human happiness contain within themselves the seeds of their own decomposition.
— Theodore Dalrymple
To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.
— Theodore Dalrymple
Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.
— Theodore Dalrymple
Do I grow cleverer with age, or does the world grow more stupid?
— Theodore Dalrymple
an attachment to his culture is, for the European, the beginning of the slippery slope.
— Theodore Dalrymple
The Cartesian point of moral epistemology: I'm angry, therefore I'm right.
— Theodore Dalrymple
The purpose of those who argue for cultural diversity is to impose ideological uniformity.
— Theodore Dalrymple
Equality of Ugliness: If we can't all live in a beautiful place we must all live in an ugly place.
— Theodore Dalrymple
Havana is like Beirut, without having gone through the civil war to achieve the destruction.
— Theodore Dalrymple
the only way to eliminate hypocrisy from human existence is to abandon all principles whatsoever;
— Theodore Dalrymple
Fascism is not fashion.
— Theodore Dalrymple