Not with a Bang But a Whimper Quotes

“How can one respect people as members of the human race unless one holds them to a standard of conduct and truthfulness?”
― Theodore Dalrymple, Not With a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics & Culture of Decline

“We have sunk to a depth in which re-statement of the obvious is the first duty of intelligent men.”
― Theodore Dalrymple, Not With a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics and Culture of Decline

“the state looms large in all our lives, not only in its intrusions but in our thoughts: for so thoroughly have we drunk at the wells of collectivism that we see the state always as the solution to any problem, never as an obstacle to be overcome. One can gauge how completely collectivism has entered our soul – so that we are now a people of the government, for the government, by the government – by a strange but characteristic British locution.”
― Theodore Dalrymple, Not With a Bang But a Whimper: The Politics & Culture of Decline