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Theodore Dalrymple quotes: As the Habsburg military used to say, the situation is catastrophic, but not serious.

As the Habsburg military used to say, the situation is catastrophic, but not serious.

Theodore Dalrymple quotes: I learned early in my life that if people were offered the opportunity of tranquility, they often reject it and choose torment instead.

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 quotes: The worth of a cause is not necessarily proportional to the lengths to which people will go to promote it.

The worth of a cause is not necessarily proportional to the lengths to which people will go to promote it.

Theodore Dalrymple quotes: A curious reversal in the locus of moral concern has taken place: people feel responsible for everything except for what they do.

A curious reversal in the locus of moral concern has taken place: people feel responsible for everything except for what they do.

Theodore Dalrymple quotes: Political correctness is often the attempt to make sentimentality socially obligatory or legally enforceable.

Political correctness is often the attempt to make sentimentality socially obligatory or legally enforceable.

Theodore Dalrymple quotes: When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.

When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.

Theodore Dalrymple quotes: The road to heaven is paved with fulfilled desires, and to hell with frustrated ones.

The road to heaven is paved with fulfilled desires, and to hell with frustrated ones.

Theodore Dalrymple quotes: every psychic defence mechanism known to the modern psychologist makes its appearance somewhere in Shakespeare.

every psychic defence mechanism known to the modern psychologist makes its appearance somewhere in Shakespeare.

Theodore Dalrymple quotes: 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.

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 quotes: The world has a lot to thank murderers for, when you come to think of it.

The world has a lot to thank murderers for, when you come to think of it.

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

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

Theodore Dalrymple quotes: [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.

[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 quotes: Parents are perhaps the most common object of resentment, the people who are most frequently blamed for all our failings and failures alike.

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 quotes: There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.

There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.

Theodore Dalrymple quotes: Facts are much more malleable than prejudices.

Facts are much more malleable than prejudices.

Theodore Dalrymple quotes: How can one respect people as members of the human race unless one holds them to a standard of conduct and truthfulness?

How can one respect people as members of the human race unless one holds them to a standard of conduct and truthfulness?

Theodore Dalrymple quotes: It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it - in other words, by becoming civilized - that men become fully human.

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 quotes: How many people does each of us know who claim to seek happiness but freely choose paths inevitably leading to misery?

How many people does each of us know who claim to seek happiness but freely choose paths inevitably leading to misery?

Theodore Dalrymple quotes: Political correctness is the means by which we try to control others; decency is the means by which we try to control ourselves.

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 quotes: All forms of human happiness contain within themselves the seeds of their own decomposition.

All forms of human happiness contain within themselves the seeds of their own decomposition.

Theodore Dalrymple quotes: To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.

To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.

Theodore Dalrymple quotes: Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.

Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.

Theodore Dalrymple quotes: Do I grow cleverer with age, or does the world grow more stupid?

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

Theodore Dalrymple quotes: an attachment to his culture is, for the European, the beginning of the slippery slope.

an attachment to his culture is, for the European, the beginning of the slippery slope.

Theodore Dalrymple quotes: The Cartesian point of moral epistemology: I'm angry, therefore I'm right.

The Cartesian point of moral epistemology: I'm angry, therefore I'm right.

Theodore Dalrymple quotes: The purpose of those who argue for cultural diversity is to impose ideological uniformity.

The purpose of those who argue for cultural diversity is to impose ideological uniformity.

Theodore Dalrymple quotes: Equality of Ugliness: If we can't all live in a beautiful place we must all live in an ugly place.

Equality of Ugliness: If we can't all live in a beautiful place we must all live in an ugly place.

Theodore Dalrymple quotes: Havana is like Beirut, without having gone through the civil war to achieve the destruction.

Havana is like Beirut, without having gone through the civil war to achieve the destruction.

Theodore Dalrymple quotes: the only way to eliminate hypocrisy from human existence is to abandon all principles whatsoever;

the only way to eliminate hypocrisy from human existence is to abandon all principles whatsoever;

Theodore Dalrymple quotes: Fascism is not fashion.

Fascism is not fashion.