Quotes by : Theodore Dalrymple

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

Facts are much more malleable than prejudices.

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

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

[T]he scale of a man's evil is not entirely to be measured by its practical consequences. Men commit....

I have the not altogether unsatisfying impression that civilisation is collapsing around me.Is it my....

To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.

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

Music escapes ideological characterization. Just as there are some social scientists who believe that....

And secretly I fell prey to the one of the besetting sins of western intellectuals, which normally I....