Theodore Dalrymple: Likeness

“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)

Life , Way , Decision

“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.”

Theodore Dalrymple

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

World , Hope , Reality

“When the cold war ended, I thought, as no doubt did many others, that the age of ideology was over. Again like many others, I underestimated man’s need for transcendence, which, in the absence of religion or high culture, he is most likely to find in a political or social cause.”

Theodore Dalrymple

City Journal (1998 - 2008)

War , Age , Religion

“Compassionate fellow-feeling … can soon become self-indulgent and lead to spiritual pride. It imparts an inner glow, like a shot of whiskey on a cold day, but like whisky it can prevent the clear-headedness which we need at least as much as we need warmth of heart.”

Theodore Dalrymple

Migration: Multiculturalism and its Metaphors (2016)

Feeling , Heart

“The victory over cruelty is never final, but, like the maintenance of freedom, requires eternal vigilance.”

Theodore Dalrymple

How—and How Not—to Love Mankind http://www.city-journal.org/html/11_3_urbanities-how_and_how_no.html (Summer 2001).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)

Freedom , Victory

“We are like creatures so dazzled with our own technological prowess that we no longer think it necessary to consider the obvious.”

Theodore Dalrymple

Modern Predestination http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon2007-02-06td.html (February 6, 2007).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)

Thinking

“Whereas fortitude was once regarded as a virtue, it has come to be regarded as a kind of reprehensible and deliberate obtuseness, to be utterly condemned as treason to the self (there is no fury like a non-judgmentalist scorned).”

Theodore Dalrymple

Bad counsel http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/23/jun05/therap.htm (June 2005).
New Criterion (2000 - 2005)

“In the British public service nothing succeeds like failure: indeed, failure is success, if looked on in the right way, namely as something requiring yet further intervention in people's lives to amend.”

Theodore Dalrymple

Mr Brown's self-esteem issue - or, asks Theodore Dalrymple, does Gordon Brown really believe that he can solve the problems of the world.
Source: The Social Affairs Unit (2006 - 2008)

People , Way , Failure , Success