TJL

“No one seems to have noticed that a loss of a sense of shame means a loss of privacy; a loss of privacy means a loss of intimacy; and a loss of intimacy means a loss of depth. There is, in fact, no better way to produce shallow and superficial people than to let them live their lives entirely in the open, without concealment of anything.”
― Theodore Dalrymple, Our Culture, What's Left of It: The Mandarins and the Masses

“Mercer doesn’t have to do anything alien to him. He suffers but at least he isn’t required to violate his own identity.”
― Philip K. Dick, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?

“Political correctness is the means by which we try to control others; decency is the means by which we try to control ourselves.”
― Theodore Dalrymple

“The Cartesian point of moral epistemology: I'm angry, therefore I'm right.”
― Theodore Dalrymple, Spoilt Rotten: The Toxic Cult of Sentimentality