Theodore Dalrymple citáty

Theodore Dalrymple je anglický lékař a spisovatel.

✵ 11. říjen 1949
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Theodore Dalrymple: Citáty anglicky

“When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.”

What is Poverty? http://www.city-journal.org/html/9_2_oh_to_be.html (Spring 1999).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)

“Where fashion in clothes, bodily adornment, and music are concerned, it is the underclass that increasingly sets the pace. Never before has there been so much downward cultural aspiration.”

Theodore Dalrymple kniha Life at the Bottom

Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass (2001).
Zdroj: https://books.google.com/books?id=GR5vAAAAQBAJ&lpg=PR14&ots=YQt2Bn14Ci&dq=%22downward%20cultural%20aspiration%22&pg=PR14#v=onepage&q=%22downward%20cultural%20aspiration%22&f=false Google Books

“In a corporate state, all attempts to reduce bureaucracy increase it.”

Theodore Dalrymple finds a cure for the German malady of low blood pressure: read The Guardian's job advertisements http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/blog/archives/001381.php (February 5, 2007).
The Social Affairs Unit (2006 - 2008)

“In the modern view, unbridled personal freedom is the only good to be pursued; any obstacle to it is a problem to be overcome.”

All Sex, All the Time http://www.city-journal.org/html/10_3_urbanities-all_sex.html (Summer 2000).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)

“It is hard to oppose an ideology with a tradition.”

A Confusion of Tongues http://www.city-journal.org/2008/18_2_otbie-immigrant_assimilation.html (Spring 2008).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)

“Mediocrity triumphs because it presents itself as democratic and because it is dull, and so for many does not seem worth struggling against.”

Leveling Britain http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon2007-03-22td.html (March 22, 2007).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)

“It is curious how an age of public self-revelation, and of the use of psychological jargon, should also be an age when self-examination is rarely practised.”

Psychiatric drug promotion and the politics of neoliberalism: The British Journal of Psychiatry is wrong to blame neoliberalism for the over-prescription of antidepressants http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/blog/archives/000941.php (May 24, 2006).
The Social Affairs Unit (2006 - 2008)

“Loose language suggests loose thought.”

Victim impact statements represent the sentimentalisation - the Diana-ification - of the criminal justice system, argues Theodore Dalrymple http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/blog/archives/001298.php (December 11, 2006).
The Social Affairs Unit (2006 - 2008)

“Political abstractions can disguise or change the meaning of the most elementary realities.”

Gillray’s Ungloomy Morality http://www.city-journal.org/html/12_1_oh_to_be.html (Winter 2002).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)

“Unilateral tolerance in a world of intolerance is like unilateral disarmament in a world of armed camps: it regards hope as a better basis for policy than reality.”

Why Theo Van Gogh Was Murdered http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon_11_15_04td.html (November 15, 2004).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)

“Frivolity without gaiety and earnestness without seriousness—a most unattractive combination.”

It’s This Bad http://www.city-journal.org/html/16_2_oh_to_be.html(Spring 2006).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)

“Where tax is solidarity, the national sport is tax evasion.”

"Tax is solidarity" - Theodore Dalrymple diagnoses France's malaise: Their intellectuals' belief that tax is solidarity and justice is fairness - but the national sport is tax evasion http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/blog/archives/001407.php (February 28, 2007).
The Social Affairs Unit (2006 - 2008)

“If we can sympathise only with the utterly blameless, then we can sympathise with no one, for all of us have contributed to our own misfortunes - it is a consequence of the human condition that we should. But it does nobody any favours to disguise from him the origins of his misfortunes, and pretend that they are all external to him in circumstances in which they are not.”

Addiction and the Ipswich Murders: Theodore Dalrymple argues that the five murdered women were driven on to the streets not by addiction itself, but by myths about addiction http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/blog/archives/001306.php (December 14, 2006).
The Social Affairs Unit (2006 - 2008)

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