Quotes by : Theodore Dalrymple

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

Demonstrative proof is lacking, but if we thought only about those things about which such proof were....

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....

There is something deeply attractive, at least to quite a lot of people, about squalor, misery, and vice.....

[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....

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....