Anthony Malcolm Daniels Quotes

United Kingdom, Writer
October 11, 1949

Anthony Malcolm Daniels, who generally uses the pen name Theodore Dalrymple, is an English writer and retired prison doctor and psychiatrist. He worked in a number of Sub-Saharan African countries as well as in the East End of London. Before his retirement in 2005, he worked in City Hospital, Birmingham and Winson Green Prison in inner-city Birmingham, England.

Also known as Doctor, Psychotherapist

There is something deeply attractive, at least to quite a lot of people, about squalor, misery and vice. They are regarded as more authentic, and certainly more exciting, than cleanliness, happiness, and virtue.

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- Virtue
- Misery
- Vice
It is only by having desire thwarted, and thereby learning to control it — in other words, by becoming civilized — that men become fully human.

Anthony Malcolm Daniels
- Desire
- Human
- Become

Political correctness is often the attempt to make sentimentality socially obligatory or legally enforceable.

Anthony Malcolm Daniels
The purpose of those who argue for cultural diversity is to impose ideological uniformity.

Anthony Malcolm Daniels
The Cartesian point of moral epistemology: I'm angry, therefore I'm right.

Anthony Malcolm Daniels
- Right
- Angry
- Epistemology
To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.

Anthony Malcolm Daniels
When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.

Anthony Malcolm Daniels
There is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.

Anthony Malcolm Daniels

How many people does each of us know who claim to seek happiness but freely choose paths inevitably leading to misery?

Anthony Malcolm Daniels
- Happiness
- Misery
- Claim
Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.

Anthony Malcolm Daniels