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Anthony Daniels , plus connu sous son nom de plume Theodore Dalrymple, est médecin à la retraite et écrivain. Il a travaillé en plusieurs pays d'Afrique subsaharienne et dans les bas quartiers de l'East End de Londres. Avant sa retraite en 2005, il a appartenu au City Hospital et à Winson Green Prison, situés tous deux à Birmingham en Angleterre.

Daniels est éditorialiste au City Journal, une publication du think tank conservateur Manhattan Institute, où il est Dietrich Weismann Fellow. En plus du City Journal, son travail paraît dans The British Medical Journal, The Times, The Observer, The Daily Telegraph, The Spectator, The Salisbury Review, et Axess magasin. Il est auteur de plusieurs livres, dont Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass, Our Culture, What's Left of It, et Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality.

Selon Daniels, les opinions prétendument progressistes répandues dans les cercles intellectuels occidentaux diluent la responsabilité des individus par rapport à leurs propres actions et sapent la morale traditionnelle, ce qui contribue à la formation dans les pays riches d'un sous-prolétariat affecté par une violence endémique, la criminalité, les maladies sexuellement transmissibles, la dépendance à l'assistance sociale et la toxicomanie. La plupart des articles et des livres de Dalrymple s'étayent de ses expériences de travail avec les criminels et les malades mentaux.

Ses détracteurs le qualifient de pessimiste et de misanthrope; en revanche, ses partisans font l'éloge de sa philosophie résolument conservatrice, qu'ils décrivent comme anti-idéologique, sceptique, rationnelle et empirique.

En 2011, Dalrymple a reçu le Prijs voor de Vrijheid du think tank libéral Libera. Wikipedia  

✵ 11. octobre 1949
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“When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.”

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

“The appeal of political correctness is that it attempts to change men’s souls by altering how they speak. If one sufficiently reforms language, certain thoughts become unthinkable, and the world moves in the approved direction.”

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Engineering Souls http://www.city-journal.org/html/17_2_sndgs03.html (March 22, 2007).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)

“The main difference between working in an NHS hospital in Britain and a prison is that prison is much safer.”

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CBC Ideas Interview (podcast) (September 25, 2006)

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

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“The bravest and most noble are not those who take up arms, but those who are decent despite everything; who improve what it is in their power to improve, but do not imagine themselves to be saviours. In their humble struggle is true heroism.”

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“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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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?”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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

“Loose language suggests loose thought.”

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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.”

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

“Orwell's 1984 refers more directly to contemporary events than does Huxley's book: the narrative takes place in the near rather than the distant future and obviously sets its sights on Stalinism. When I traveled in the communist world before the fall of the Berlin Wall, I found that everyone I met who had read the book (clandestinely, of course) expressed immeasurable admiration for it and marveled that a man who had never set foot inside a communist country could not only describe the physical environment so well—the universal smell of cabbage, the grayness of the dilapidated buildings—but also its mental and moral atmosphere. It was almost as if the communist regimes had taken 1984 as a blueprint rather than as a warning.”

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The Dystopian Imagination http://www.city-journal.org/html/11_4_oh_to_be.html (Autumn 2001).
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.”

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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.”

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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.”

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"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)

“Having been issued the false prospectus of happiness through unlimited sex, modern man concludes, when he is not happy with his life, that his sex has not been unlimited enough. If welfare does not eliminate squalor, we need more welfare; if sex does not bring happiness, we need more sex.”

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All Sex, All the Time.
City Journal (1998 - 2008)

“It seems that when an impending catastrophe will affect them personally, in their very flesh and blood, intellectuals start to think more clearly about the legal and institutional prerequisites of a free society.”

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Ideas That Kill http://www.city-journal.org/html/10_1_diarist.html (Winter 2000).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)

“Nationalism is fraught with dangers, of course, but so is the blind refusal to recognize that attachment to one’s own culture, traditions, and history is a creative, normal, and healthy part of human experience.”

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How PC Boosts Le Pen http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon_4_25_02td.html (April 25, 2002).
City Journal (1998 - 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.”

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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)

“Resentment is one of the few emotions that never lets you down, but it’s useless. In fact, it’s worse than useless, it’s harmful, and we all suffer from it at some time in our lives.”

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CBC Ideas Interview (podcast) (September 25, 2006)