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Anthony Daniels (psychiatrist) Quotes (1949-)

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About Anthony Daniels (psychiatrist)

Anthony Daniels (born 11 October 1949) is an English writer and retired physician (prison doctor and psychiatrist) who frequently uses the pen name Theodore Dalrymple.

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“Loose language suggests loose thought.”
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“Modernity is the most transient of qualities.”
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“In the welfare state, experience teaches nothing.”
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“It is hard to oppose an ideology with a tradition.”
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“Where tax is solidarity, the national sport is tax evasion.”
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“For intellectuals, everyone’s mind is closed but their own.”
“What youth considers liberation, maturity considers tasteless excess.”
“In a corporate state, all attempts to reduce bureaucracy increase it.”
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“Reason can never be the absolute dictator of man’s mental or moral economy.”
“There is nothing an official hates more than a person who makes up his own mind.”
“The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man’s existence.”
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“Truth is not the first casualty of war alone: it is the first casualty of populism.”
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“It is easy to be lenient at other people's expense, and call it generosity of mind.”
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“Political abstractions can disguise or change the meaning of the most elementary realities.”
“There is no smoke without fire, and there is no ethically repugnant principle without logic.”
“Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.”
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“Frivolity without gaiety and earnestness without seriousness—a most unattractive combination.”
“Wisdom and good governance require more than the consistent application of abstract principles.”
“When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.”
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“There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.”
Anthony Daniels (psychiatrist)
“And the fact is that millions of opiates addicts having given up their habit without medical assistance.”
“The victory over cruelty is never final, but, like the maintenance of freedom, requires eternal vigilance.”
“The British are fast turning themselves into a nation of slaves, where even the slave-masters are not free.”
“The main difference between working in an NHS hospital in Britain and a prison is that prison is much safer.”
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“Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result.”

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Anthony Daniels (psychiatrist) on Social acceptance

“What is the point of restraint and circumspection, if such stream-of-consciousness vulgarity can win not merely wealth and fame but complete social acceptance?”
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About Anthony Daniels (psychiatrist)

Anthony Daniels (born 11 October 1949) is an English writer and retired physician (prison doctor and psychiatrist) who frequently uses the pen name Theodore Dalrymple.