Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass (2001).
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“In a corporate state, all attempts to reduce bureaucracy increase it.”

Theodore Dalrymple

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)

“There is nothing an addict likes more, or that serves as better pretext for continuing his present way of life, than to place the weight of responsibility for his situation somewhere other than on his own decisions.”

Theodore Dalrymple

Addicted to Addicts http://www.city-journal.org/html/9_1_sndgs01.html (Winter 1999). City Journal (1998 - 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.”

Theodore Dalrymple

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

“Over and over again, medical writers liken withdrawal [from heroin], at worst, to a dose of flu. … Let me ask the reader this: if you were given a choice between suffering a bout of flu in the above sense, or avoiding it by robbing someone in the street or breaking into a house and stealing its contents, which would you choose?”

Theodore Dalrymple

Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy (2006)

“If consequences are removed from enough actions, then the very concept of human agency evaporates, life itself becomes meaningless, and is thenceforth a vacuum in which people oscillate between boredom and oblivion.”

Theodore Dalrymple

Romancing Opiates: Pharmacological Lies and the Addiction Bureaucracy (2006)

“Addicts, to this day, claim that they are they are the only people qualified to speak of the seriousness of withdrawal effects; as if only people with cerebral malaria or bowel cancer could speak of their seriousness.”

Theodore Dalrymple

C-SPAN: Romancing Opiates https://www.c-span.org/video/?191384-1/romancing-opiates (May 30, 2006)

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

Theodore Dalrymple

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

“The nearer emotional life approaches to hysteria, to continual outward show, the less genuine it becomes. Feeling becomes equated with vehemence of expression, so that insincerity becomes permanent.”

Theodore Dalrymple

A Neglected Genius http://www.city-journal.org/html/14_1_oh_to_be.html (Winter 2004). 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.”

Theodore Dalrymple

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.”

Theodore Dalrymple

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)

“The intellectual's struggle to deny the obvious is never more desperate than when reality is unpleasant and at variance with his preconceptions and when full acknowledgment of it would undermine the foundations of his intellectual worldview.”

Theodore Dalrymple

Seeing Is Not Believing http://www.city-journal.org/html/10_4_oh_to_be.html (Autumn 2000). City Journal (1998 - 2008)