Frases de Theodore Dalrymple

„"O objetivo daqueles que defendem a diversidade cultural é impor uniformidade ideológica".“

—  Theodore Dalrymple

livro Qualquer coisa serve (Título original: Anything Goes)

„[…]a divisão entre bem e mal perpassa cada coração humano.“

—  Theodore Dalrymple

livro Qualquer coisa serve (Título original: Anything Goes)

„A liberalização das leis trabalhistas na França, que fazem com que o empregado custe ao empregador mais da metade de seu salário em proteções sociais, sem dúvida reduziria o desemprego; por outro lado, não sei ao certo se a mão de obra de um jovem criado numa das banlieues, onde passou a vida dividido entre a prática de pequenos crimes e o consumo da cultura popular, custaria menos do que seu valor em qualquer tabela de remuneração concebível.“

—  Theodore Dalrymple

livro Qualquer coisa serve (Título original: Anything Goes)

„Para quem acredita na injustiça da sociedade, será sempre possível apontar casos de mérito que não foram recompensados; da mesma forma, sempre será possível, àqueles que creem no valor do esforço pessoal, apontar casos de triunfo mesmo diante das mais severas circunstâncias. É a visão de mundo que determina as escolhas das evidências, não o oposto.“

—  Theodore Dalrymple

Em defesa do preconceito: a necessidade de se ter ideias preconcebidas / Theodore Dalrymple; tradução Maurício G. Righi. - 1ª ed. - São Paulo: É Realizações, 2015, p. 111.

„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

„Poucos prazeres ilícitos são maiores do que uma lição ou em vista de um bem maior.“

—  Theodore Dalrymple

livro Qualquer coisa serve (Título original: Anything Goes)

„Apenas os fatos em si (a lá Gadgrind) não são capazes de determinar o quadro no qual se encaixam, embora possam encorajar os mais intelectualmente honestos entre nós a reconsiderarem o quadro. Geralmente, fatos inconvenientes nos levam a heroicos contorcionismos retóricos a fim de preservar a nossa visão, em vez de promover uma honesta reavaliação.“

—  Theodore Dalrymple

Em defesa do preconceito: a necessidade de se ter ideias preconcebidas / Theodore Dalrymple; tradução Maurício G. Righi. - 1ª ed. - São Paulo: É Realizações, 2015, p. 26.

„When every benefit received is a right, there is no place for good manners, let alone for gratitude.“

—  Theodore Dalrymple

What is Poverty? http://www.city-journal.org/html/9_2_oh_to_be.html (Spring 1999).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)

„To regret religion is to regret Western civilization.“

—  Theodore Dalrymple

„Feeling good about yourself is not the same thing as doing good. Good policy is more important than good feelings.“

—  Theodore Dalrymple

„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

„The purpose of those who argue for cultural diversity is to impose ideological uniformity.“

—  Theodore Dalrymple

„It is, of course, a common prejudice that censorship is bad for art and therefore always unjustified: though, if this were so, mankind would have little in the way of an artistic heritage and we should now be living in an artistic golden age.“

—  Theodore Dalrymple

What’s Wrong with Twinkling Buttocks? http://www.city-journal.org/html/13_3_oh_to_be.html (Summer 2003).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)

„Equality is the measure of all things, and bad behavior is less bad if everyone indulges in it.“

—  Theodore Dalrymple

The Economist Sees No Evil http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon_2_20_02td.html (February 20, 2002).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)

„It is better to be opposed by an enemy than to be adrift in meaninglessness, for the simulacrum of an enemy lends purpose to actions whose nihilism would otherwise be self-evident.“

—  Theodore Dalrymple

The Barbarians at the Gates of Paris http://www.city-journal.org/html/12_4_the_barbarians.html (Autumn 2002).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)

„It is strange, is it not, how the more strenuously we deny the importance of race in human affairs, the more obsessed with it and the touchier on the subject we grow.“

—  Theodore Dalrymple

Theodore Dalrymple is outraged to be asked his ethnicity by officialdom - but remembers that it is our social duty to grin and bear insults http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/blog/archives/001697.php (January 23, 2008).
The Social Affairs Unit (2006 - 2008)

„Children in school are not students, they are pupils. It is typical of certain kinds of politicians that they should regard children as adults, the better subsequently, and consequently, to regard adults as children.“

—  Theodore Dalrymple

Mr Brown's self-esteem issue - or, asks Theodore Dalrymple, does Gordon Brown really believe that he can solve the problems of the world? http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/blog/archives/001326.php (January 24, 2007).
The Social Affairs Unit (2006 - 2008)

„Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, nor to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to.“

—  Theodore Dalrymple

Frontpage Magazine interview http://www.frontpagemag.com/Articles/ReadArticle.asp?ID=19293 (August 31, 2005).

„To deal with the problems of modern society, hard thought, confrontation with an often unpleasant reality, and moral courage are needed, for which a vague and self-congratulatory broadmindedness is no substitute.“

—  Theodore Dalrymple

An imaginary “scandal” http://www.newcriterion.com/archive/23/may05/dalrymple.htm (May 2005).
New Criterion (2000 - 2005)