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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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“Optimism is the parent of despair, while pessimism allows the mind to accustom itself to the inevitable disappointments of human existence by degrees, just as some drugs induce a state of tolerance. Pessimists, moreover, have the better sense of humour, for they have a livelier apprehension of pretension and absurdity. In a meritocracy, furthermore, those who fail must either indulge in elaborate mental contortions to disguise reality from themselves or sink into a deep melancholy.”

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British Medical Journal Views and Reviews: Desperate house calls (BMJ 2009;338:b212).

“Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.”

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The Economist Sees No Evil http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon_2_20_02td.html (February 20, 2002).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)

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

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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)

“Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children grow up very fast but not very far. That is why it is possible for 14 year olds now to establish friendships with 26 year olds - because they know by the age of 14 all they are ever going to know.”

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Frontpage Magazine interview (August 31, 2005).

“It is, of course, a common prejudice that censorship is bad for art and therefore always unjustified: though, if this were so, mankind would have little in the way of an artistic heritage and we should now be living in an artistic golden age.”

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What’s Wrong with Twinkling Buttocks? http://www.city-journal.org/html/13_3_oh_to_be.html (Summer 2003).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)

“Henceforth there are to be no fixed or inviolable principles of law at all—only an endlessly changing legal response to the fashionable causes of the moment.”

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All Our Pomp of Yesterday http://www.city-journal.org/html/9_3_oh_to_be.html (Summer 1999).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)

“In Britain, journalists often view comparisons with our society going back two, three, or seven centuries as more relevant than comparisons going back two, three, or seven decades. Drunkenness centuries ago is more illuminating than comparative sobriety 30 years ago. The distant past, selectively mined for evidence that justifies our current conduct, becomes more important than living memory.”

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Selective Memory http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon_07_06_04td.html (July 6, 2004).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)

“Experience rarely teaches its lessons directly but instead requires interpretation through the filter of preconceived theories, prejudices, and desires. Where these are invincible, facts are weak things.”

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Less Liberté Means Less Egalité http://www.city-journal.org/html/16_1_sndgs05.html (Winter 2006).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)

“Never has so much indifference masqueraded as so much compassion; never has there been such willful blindness. The once pragmatic English have become a nation of sleepwalkers.”

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Seeing Is Not Believing.
City Journal (1998 - 2008)

“When a population feels alienated from the legal system under which it lives, because that system fails to protect it from real dangers while lending succor and encouragement to every possible kind of wrongdoing, the population may well lose faith in the very idea of law. That is how civilization unravels.”

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Prison Porn http://www.city-journal.org/html/13_1_sndgs08.html (Winter 2003).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)

“The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man’s existence.”

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Exposing Shallowness http://www.newcriterion.com/articles.cfm/demello-dalrymple-2647 (June 2000).
New Criterion (2000 - 2005)

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

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

“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).”

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

“It is easy to be lenient at other people's expense, and call it generosity of mind.”

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It is right to imprison drug addicts - argues Theodore Dalrymple http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/blog/archives/001744.php (March 18, 2008).
The Social Affairs Unit (2006 - 2008)

“Henceforth, virtue was not the exercise of discipline, self-control or benevolence for the sake of others, but the expression of the right opinions of the moment.”

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Good people have become a defeated class in Blair's Britain, argues Theodore Dalrymple http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/blog/archives/001464.php (March 29, 2007).
The Social Affairs Unit (2006 - 2008)

“Blanket compassion will shift the distribution decisively towards the manipulative end of the spectrum, and may paradoxically decrease the compassion with which the genuinely despairing are treated: for they are apt to get lost in the great mass of pseudo-distress and manipulation, and often their conduct draws less attention precisely because it is less attention-seeking.”

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Theodore Dalrymple on Terence Rattigan, Suicide and Prison - or how incontinent compassion has become a Keynesian stimulus to the economy of the caring profession http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/blog/archives/001768.php (April 18, 2008).
The Social Affairs Unit (2006 - 2008)

“If a lack of money had prevented people from improving their lot, then mankind would still be living in the caves: unless you believe that investment capital first arrived from outer space.”

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Theodore Dalrymple remembers Ken Saro-Wiwa - and asks, if unearned income from oil has done so much harm to Nigeria, will increased unearned aid flows not do similar harm to Africa as a whole? http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/blog/archives/000708.php (January 3, 2006).
The Social Affairs Unit (2006 - 2008)

“If all our political and intellectual elite offers by way of a national culture is “pop music, gambling, fashionable clothes or television,” then we can neither mount a convincing intellectual defense against our enemies, nor hope to integrate intelligent, inquiring, and unfulfilled Muslim youths—young men principally, of course—to our way of life.”

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The Cost of Frivolity http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon2007-02-01td.html (February 1, 2007).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)

“Wisdom and good governance require more than the consistent application of abstract principles.”

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

“The withdrawal symptoms from opiates are not severe and never dangerous, though of course they do exist. Insofar as they are genuinely feared, there has been a campaign of exaggeration about them for nearly 200 years.”

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

“His greatest fear, or nightmare, is not to be thought hip or cool, and if to avoid that terrible fate it means that he has to glamorize evil--well, so be it.”

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

“Reason can never be the absolute dictator of man’s mental or moral economy.”

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What the New Atheists Don't See http://www.city-journal.org/html/17_4_oh_to_be.html (Autumn 2007).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)

“I was in the enormous and almost deserted square in front of the Great People's Study House—all open spaces in Pyongyang remain deserted unless filled with parades of hundreds of thousands of human automata—when a young Korean slid surreptitiously up to me and asked, "Do you speak English?"
An electric moment: for in North Korea, unsupervised contact between a Korean and a foreigner is utterly unthinkable, as unthinkable as shouting, "Down with Big Brother!"
"Yes," I replied.
"I am a student at the Foreign Languages Institute. Reading Dickens and Shakespeare is the greatest, the only pleasure of my life."
It was the most searing communication I have ever received in my life. We parted immediately afterward and of course will never meet again. For him, Dickens and Shakespeare (which the regime permitted him to read with quite other ends in view) guaranteed the possibility not just of freedom but of truly human life itself.”

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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)

“There is no smoke without fire, and there is no ethically repugnant principle without logic.”

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How to murder a Bolivian boy http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/19/jun01/daniels.htm (June 2001).
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.”

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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)

“There is something deeply attractive, at least to quite a lot of people, about squalor, misery, and vice. They are regarded as more authentic, and certainly more exciting, than cleanliness, happiness, and virtue.”

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

“Incidentally, many thousands of American servicemen addicted themselves to heroin in Vietnam, but two years after their repatriation their rate of addiction was no greater than that of draftees who were to go to Vietnam, but never did go because the war had ended.”

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

“In the welfare state, experience teaches nothing.”

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A Murderess’s Tale http://www.city-journal.org/html/15_1_oh_to_be.html (Winter 2005).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)

“For the sake of democracy, vigorous, civilized debate must replace the law of silence that political correctness has imposed.”

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How PC Boosts Le Pen.
City Journal (1998 - 2008)

“What youth considers liberation, maturity considers tasteless excess.”

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Discovering LaRochefoucauld http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/19/apr01/laroche.htm (April 2001).
New Criterion (2000 - 2005)