Anthony Malcolm Daniels (Theodore Dalrymple) Quotes

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

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• Ninety-five percent of the eggs produced in America come from factory-farmed birds. Even if free-range farms were hugely more humane, the sheer number of animals raised to satisfy people's desire for eggs, meat, and milk makes it impossible for us to raise them all on small, free-range farms.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • People
  • America
  • Free

• When a system of oppression has become institutionalized it is unnecessary for individuals to be oppressive.

  

  Florynce Kennedy
  • System
  • Become
  • Oppression

• I would love to work with Raju Hirani. I never thought I would have a wish-list of directors as such, but after seeing the consistency of his storylines and the human touch he gets in his film, I would love to work with him.

  

  Ram Charan
  • Work
  • Wish
  • Human

• As far as I am concerned, LGBT can only stand for leprosy, gonorrhea, bacteria, and tuberculosis, all of which are detrimental to human existence.

  

  Yahya Jammeh
  • Human
  • LGBT
  • Bacteria

• Ambition is the immoderate desire for power.

  

  Baruch Spinoza
  • Power
  • Desire
  • Ambition

• By nature, men desire the beautiful.

  

  Saint Basil
  • Men
  • Nature
  • Beautiful

• Politics are usually the executive expression of human immaturity.

  

  Vera Brittain
  • Politics
  • Human
  • Expression

• Every human being, of whatever origin, of whatever station, deserves respect. We must each respect others even as we respect ourselves.

  

  U Thant
  • Respect
  • Human
  • Origin

• I had a Guru. He was a great saint and most merciful. I served him long - very, very long; still, he would not blow any mantra in my ears. I had a keen desire never to leave him but to stay with him and serve him and at all cost receive some instruction from him.

  

  Sai Baba
  • Great
  • Long
  • Desire

• I'm like, 'Why aren't artists owning their masters? Why are labels robbing artists dry, and they have to spend all this time on tour to even break even?' Like, what happened? Why are they promoting things that aren't either socially conscious or elevating the human consciousness?

  

  Kat Graham
  • Time
  • Why
  • Human

• Man is a creation of desire, not a creation of need.

  

  Gaston Bachelard
  • Man
  • Desire
  • Creation

• Once the realization is accepted that even between the closest human beings infinite distances continue, a wonderful living side by side can grow, if they succeed in loving the distance between them which makes it possible for each to see the other whole against the sky.

  

  Rainer Maria Rilke
  • Human
  • Distance
  • Wonderful

• Mental prayer in my opinion is nothing else than an intimate sharing between friends; it means taking time frequently to be alone with Him who we know loves us. The important thing is not to think much but to love much and so do that which best stirs you to love. Love is not great delight but desire to please God in everything.

  

  Saint Teresa of Avila
  • God
  • Friends
  • Desire

• I don't think Osama is a Muslim. I don't think Osama is a human being.

  

  Hamid Karzai
  • Think
  • Human
  • Human being

• Generally, it is human endeavour to have young people lead, and you see that in public life in the U.S. and everywhere.

  

  Salman Khurshid
  • People
  • Life
  • Human

• The hero is changing in Bollywood, and I approach a hero's role like a character by focusing on its weaknesses. I feel the weaknesses of a character make them more alive, relatable, and human.

  

  Randeep Hooda
  • Character
  • Human
  • Hero

• The two elements the traveler first captures in the big city are extra human architecture and furious rhythm. Geometry and anguish.

  

  Federico Garcia Lorca
  • City
  • Human
  • Architecture

• If not now, then when? If not you, then who? If we are able to answer these fundamental questions, then perhaps we can wipe away the blot of human slavery.

  

  Kailash Satyarthi
  • Human
  • Slavery
  • Questions

• The fruit of liberal education is not learning, but the capacity and desire to learn, not knowledge, but power.

  

  Charles William Eliot
  • Power
  • Knowledge
  • Education

• I think girls from a young age know what they want, and boys kind of have to keep up and catch up to them. Even in kindergarten, girls are pretty much the ones that like the boy first and the boys are like, 'Oh, I want to play with my trucks.' They think it's not cool. I think girls are definitely more ahead than boys.

  

  Madeline Carroll
  • Up
  • Think
  • Age

• The African tribesman, with his complete contempt for truth and his emphasis on brutality and savagery for others but not for himself, is a no-civilization.

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • Truth

• I got divorced, which was not a good thing for a revivalist minister. It did not go down well. I'd already been banned from a couple churches for my jokes. So one day I woke up and decided it was time to start living for myself.

  

  Sam Kinison
  • Up
  • Time
  • Good

• I'm extremely hard to work with.

  

  Linda Perry 4 Non Blondes
  • Work

• 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