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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.”
― Theodore Dalrymple

“If the history of the 20th Century proved anything, it proved that however bad things were, human ingenuity could usually find a way to make them worse.”
― Theodore Dalrymple

“Wickedness is always easier than virtue; for it takes the short cut to everything.”
― Samuel Johnson

“If liberty means anything at all, it means the right to tell people what they do not want to hear.”
― George Orwell

“To see what is in front of one’s nose needs a constant struggle.”
― George Orwell

“Those who deny Auschwitz would be ready to remake it.”
― Primo Levi

“I sometimes astonish my patients by telling them that it is far more important that they should be able to lose themselves than that they should be able to find themselves. For it is only in losing oneself that one does find oneself.”
― Theodore Dalrymple

“It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that men become fully human.”
― Theodore Dalrymple

“Society cannot exist unless a controlling power upon will and appetite be placed somewhere, and the less of it there is within, the more there is without...men of intemperate minds cannot be free. Their passions forge their fetters.”
― Edmund Burke