To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.
Theodore DalrympleMots clés politics christianity religion
Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.
Theodore DalrympleThe world has a lot to thank murderers for, when you come to think of it.
Theodore Dalrymple[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 DalrympleWhen every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.
Theodore DalrympleIf the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make them worse.
Theodore DalrympleThe bravest and most noble are not those who take up arms, but those who are decent despite everything; who improve what it is in their power to improve, but do not imagine themselves to be saviours. In their humble struggle is true heroism.
Theodore DalrympleIt is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that men become fully human.
Theodore DalrympleI sometimes astonish my patients by telling them that it is far more important that they should be able to lose themselves than that they should be able to find themselves. For it is only in losing oneself that one does find oneself.
Theodore DalrympleThere is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.
Theodore DalrympleMots clés change intellectuals polticians
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