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Theodore Dalrymple Quote: “One of the reasons that the area would never be renovated, however, was the council’s insistence that each house had three large plastic trash-bins on wheels, each a bright color: green for the bottles left over from last night’s drunken orgy, red for stolen goods now surplus to requirements, purple for dead bodies and used syringes, all in fact that a modern British urban household needs to disembarrass itself of.”

51. “One of the reasons that the area would never be renovated, however, was the council’s insistence that each house had three large plastic trash-bins on wheels, each a bright color: green for the bottles left over from last night’s drunken orgy, red for stolen goods now surplus to requirements, purple for dead bodies and used syringes, all in fact that a modern British urban household needs to disembarrass itself of.”

— Theodore Dalrymple

Theodore Dalrymple Quote: “Cowardly multiculturalism thus makes itself the handmaiden of anti-Western extremism.”

52. “Cowardly multiculturalism thus makes itself the handmaiden of anti-Western extremism.”

— Theodore Dalrymple

Theodore Dalrymple Quote: “And if I paint a picture of a way of life that is wholly without charm or merit, and describe many people who are deeply unattractive, it is important to remember that, if blame is to be apportioned, it is the intellectuals who deserve most of it. They should have known better but always preferred to avert their gaze. They considered the purity of their ideas to be more important than the actual consequences of their ideas. I know of no egotism more profound.”

53. “And if I paint a picture of a way of life that is wholly without charm or merit, and describe many people who are deeply unattractive, it is important to remember that, if blame is to be apportioned, it is the intellectuals who deserve most of it. They should have known better but always preferred to avert their gaze. They considered the purity of their ideas to be more important than the actual consequences of their ideas. I know of no egotism more profound.”

— Theodore Dalrymple

Theodore Dalrymple Quote: “Where two pieties – feminism and multiculturalism – come into conflict, the only way of preserving both is an indecent silence.”

54. “Where two pieties – feminism and multiculturalism – come into conflict, the only way of preserving both is an indecent silence.”

— Theodore Dalrymple

Theodore Dalrymple Quote: “Restraints upon our natural inclinations, which left to themselves do not automatically lead us to do what is good for us and often indeed lead us to evil, are not only necessary; they are the indispensable condition of civilized existence.”

55. “Restraints upon our natural inclinations, which left to themselves do not automatically lead us to do what is good for us and often indeed lead us to evil, are not only necessary; they are the indispensable condition of civilized existence.”

— Theodore Dalrymple

Theodore Dalrymple Quote: “Yet literal-mindedness is not honesty or fidelity to truth – far from it. For it is the whole experience of mankind that sexual life is always, and must always be, hidden by veils of varying degrees of opacity, if it is to be humanized into something beyond a mere animal function. What is inherently secretive, that is to say self-conscious and human, cannot be spoken of directly; the attempt leads only to crudity, not to truth.”

56. “Yet literal-mindedness is not honesty or fidelity to truth – far from it. For it is the whole experience of mankind that sexual life is always, and must always be, hidden by veils of varying degrees of opacity, if it is to be humanized into something beyond a mere animal function. What is inherently secretive, that is to say self-conscious and human, cannot be spoken of directly; the attempt leads only to crudity, not to truth.”

— Theodore Dalrymple

Theodore Dalrymple Quote: “To base one’s rejection of what exists – and hence one’s prescription for a better world – upon the petty frustrations of one’s youth, as surely many middle-class radicals have done, is profoundly egotistical. Unless consciously rejected, this impulse leads to a tendency throughout life to judge the rightness or wrongness of policies by one’s personal emotional response to them, as if emotion were an infallible guide.”

57. “To base one’s rejection of what exists – and hence one’s prescription for a better world – upon the petty frustrations of one’s youth, as surely many middle-class radicals have done, is profoundly egotistical. Unless consciously rejected, this impulse leads to a tendency throughout life to judge the rightness or wrongness of policies by one’s personal emotional response to them, as if emotion were an infallible guide.”

— Theodore Dalrymple

Theodore Dalrymple Quote: “It is not surprising that emotion untutored by thought results in nearly contentless blather, in which – ironically enough – genuine emotion cannot be adequately expressed.”

58. “It is not surprising that emotion untutored by thought results in nearly contentless blather, in which – ironically enough – genuine emotion cannot be adequately expressed.”

— Theodore Dalrymple

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

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

— Theodore Dalrymple

Theodore Dalrymple Quote: “Shakespeare knows that the tension between men as they are and men as they ought to be will forever remain unresolved. Man’s imperfectability is no more an excuse for total permissiveness, however, than are man’s imperfections a reason for inflexible intolerance.”

60. “Shakespeare knows that the tension between men as they are and men as they ought to be will forever remain unresolved. Man’s imperfectability is no more an excuse for total permissiveness, however, than are man’s imperfections a reason for inflexible intolerance.”

— Theodore Dalrymple

Theodore Dalrymple Quote: “And secretly I fell prey to the one of the besetting sins of western intellectuals, which normally I abhor: I began to experience envy of suffering, that profoundly dishonest emotion which derives from the foolish notion that only the oppressed can achieve righteousness or – more importantly – write anything profound.”

61. “And secretly I fell prey to the one of the besetting sins of western intellectuals, which normally I abhor: I began to experience envy of suffering, that profoundly dishonest emotion which derives from the foolish notion that only the oppressed can achieve righteousness or – more importantly – write anything profound.”

— Theodore Dalrymple

Theodore Dalrymple Quote: “No man was more sensitive than Zweig to the destructive effects upon individual liberty of the demands of large or strident collectivities. He would have viewed with horror the cacophony of monomanias – sexual, racial, social, egalitarian – that marks the intellectual life of our societies, each monomaniac demanding legislative restriction on the freedom of others in the name of a supposed greater, collective good.”

62. “No man was more sensitive than Zweig to the destructive effects upon individual liberty of the demands of large or strident collectivities. He would have viewed with horror the cacophony of monomanias – sexual, racial, social, egalitarian – that marks the intellectual life of our societies, each monomaniac demanding legislative restriction on the freedom of others in the name of a supposed greater, collective good.”

— Theodore Dalrymple

Theodore Dalrymple Quote: “The way to a tyrant’s heart is through a doctorate.”

63. “The way to a tyrant’s heart is through a doctorate.”

— Theodore Dalrymple

Theodore Dalrymple Quote: “Behaviorism entails the systematic denial of meaning, a denial which does violence to both the evidence and the everyday experience of humanity.”

64. “Behaviorism entails the systematic denial of meaning, a denial which does violence to both the evidence and the everyday experience of humanity.”

— Theodore Dalrymple

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

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

— Theodore Dalrymple

Theodore Dalrymple Quote: “And once again sentimentality seems to be dialectically related to violence and brutality, in imagination if not in deed.”

66. “And once again sentimentality seems to be dialectically related to violence and brutality, in imagination if not in deed.”

— Theodore Dalrymple

Theodore Dalrymple Quote: “Zweig would have dismissed our modern emotional incontinence as a sign not of honesty but of an increasing inability or unwillingness truly to feel.”

67. “Zweig would have dismissed our modern emotional incontinence as a sign not of honesty but of an increasing inability or unwillingness truly to feel.”

— Theodore Dalrymple

Theodore Dalrymple Quote: “If humankind, as T. S. Eliot put it, cannot bear very much reality, it seems that it can bear any amount of unreality.”

68. “If humankind, as T. S. Eliot put it, cannot bear very much reality, it seems that it can bear any amount of unreality.”

— Theodore Dalrymple

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

69. “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

Theodore Dalrymple Quote: “The world has a lot to thank murderers for, when you come to think of it.”

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

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Theodore Dalrymple Quote: “The climate of moral, cultural, and intellectual relativism – a relativism that began as a mere fashionable plaything for intellectuals – has been successfully communicated to those least able to resist its devastating practical effects.”

71. “The climate of moral, cultural, and intellectual relativism – a relativism that began as a mere fashionable plaything for intellectuals – has been successfully communicated to those least able to resist its devastating practical effects.”

— Theodore Dalrymple

Theodore Dalrymple Quote: “It is the prerogative of the unthinkingly prosperous to sneer at the bourgeois virtues.”

72. “It is the prerogative of the unthinkingly prosperous to sneer at the bourgeois virtues.”

— Theodore Dalrymple

Theodore Dalrymple Quote: “Linguistic and educational relativism helps to transform a class into a caste – a caste, almost, of Untouchables.”

73. “Linguistic and educational relativism helps to transform a class into a caste – a caste, almost, of Untouchables.”

— Theodore Dalrymple

Theodore Dalrymple Quote: “Tocqueville understood, as few modern writers do, that pauperism is above all a psychological, not an economic, condition.”

74. “Tocqueville understood, as few modern writers do, that pauperism is above all a psychological, not an economic, condition.”

— Theodore Dalrymple

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