Tressa

“The loss of the religious understanding of the human condition—that Man is a fallen creature for whom virtue is necessary but never fully attainable—is a loss, not a gain, in true sophistication. The secular substitute—the belief in the perfection of life on earth by the endless extension of a choice of pleasures—is not merely callow by comparison but much less realistic in its understanding of human nature.”
― Theodore Dalrymple, Our Culture, What's Left Of It

“IT IS A MISTAKE to suppose that all men, or at least all Englishmen, want to be free. On the contrary, if freedom entails responsibility, many of them want none of it. They would happily exchange their liberty for a modest (if illusory) security.”
― Theodore Dalrymple, Life At The Bottom

“The purpose of those who argue for cultural diversity is to impose ideological uniformity.”
― Theodore Dalrymple

“Political correctness is often the attempt to make sentimentality socially obligatory or legally enforceable.”
― Theodore Dalrymple, Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality