Anything Goes Quotes

“There are few illicit pleasures greater than that of causing pain to others for their own, or some higher, good.”
― Theodore Dalrymple, Anything Goes

“It is intuitively comprehensible that people who, because of the political circumstances in which they live, believe that they must betray or be betrayed, denounce or be denounced, kill or be killed, should behave in an unattractive or degraded fashion. But what I discovered in England was that many people committed evil not by force of circumstance, but because they were bored, or humiliated by their lowly station in life, or simply because they enjoyed it. Evil distracted, amused and assuaged them; it might almost be said to have given meaning, or at least purpose, to their lives.”
― Theodore Dalrymple, Anything Goes

“É da natureza dos regimes plebiscitários que sejam realizados plebiscitos até a população acertar a resposta que o líder ou a elite bem-pensante tem por correta; nesse caso, nenhum plebiscito ulterior se faz necessário – ao menos acerca do mesmo tema.”
― Theodore Dalrymple, Anything Goes