Frases de Theodore Dalrymple

Anthony Daniels es un escritor y facultativo inglés que a menudo publica bajo el seudónimo de Theodore Dalrymple. Suele escribir sobre cultura, arte, política, enseñanza y medicina tanto en Gran Bretaña como en el resto del mundo, y debe gran parte de su fama a su oposición a las políticas progresistas y liberales en esos campos. Aunque ya se ha jubilado como médico, trabajó como tal y como psiquiatra en Zimbabue y Tanzania, y más recientemente en una cárcel y un hospital público de Birmingham, en el centro de Inglaterra. Ha viajado por muchos países de África, América del Sur, Europa Oriental, etc.

Daniels ha revelado en sus escritos que su padre fue un activista comunista, mientras que su madre nació en Alemania y emigró al Reino Unido como refugiada del régimen nazi. En sus comentarios, Daniels suele argumentar que las ideas progresistas dominantes en los círculos intelectuales occidentales tienden a quitar importancia a la responsabilidad del individuo por sus propias acciones y a socavar los valores tradicionales, contribuyendo a la formación en los países ricos de una vasta clase marginal caracterizada por una violencia endémica, criminalidad, promiscuidad sexual, dependencia de los subsidios y abuso de las drogas. También afirma que el abandono por la clase media de sus ideales tradicionales de cultura y comportamiento ha producido con su ejemplo un barbarismo y una ignorancia irremisibles entre los miembros de la clase trabajadora.

Aunque a veces se le tacha de misántropo, Daniels rechaza la acusación y sus defensores afirman que su obra se basa en una filosofía conservadora opuesta a los excesos ideológicos y partidaria del escepticismo, el racionalismo y el empirismo.

En 2005 abandonó Inglaterra para establecerse en Francia, donde piensa seguir escribiendo. Sus columnas suelen aparecer en el semanario británico The Spectator y la revista trimestral estadounidense City Journal, editada por el Manhattan Institute.

Ha colaborado con el Social Trends Institute en un encuentro de expertos celebrado en la Universidad de Princeton en mayo de 2007 y que se tituló "Rethinking Business Management".[1]​ Wikipedia  

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Theodore Dalrymple: Frases en inglés

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

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

“Where fashion in clothes, bodily adornment, and music are concerned, it is the underclass that increasingly sets the pace. Never before has there been so much downward cultural aspiration.”

Theodore Dalrymple libro Life at the Bottom

Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass (2001).
Fuente: https://books.google.com/books?id=GR5vAAAAQBAJ&lpg=PR14&ots=YQt2Bn14Ci&dq=%22downward%20cultural%20aspiration%22&pg=PR14#v=onepage&q=%22downward%20cultural%20aspiration%22&f=false Google Books

“In a corporate state, all attempts to reduce bureaucracy increase it.”

Theodore Dalrymple finds a cure for the German malady of low blood pressure: read The Guardian's job advertisements http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/blog/archives/001381.php (February 5, 2007).
The Social Affairs Unit (2006 - 2008)

“In the modern view, unbridled personal freedom is the only good to be pursued; any obstacle to it is a problem to be overcome.”

All Sex, All the Time http://www.city-journal.org/html/10_3_urbanities-all_sex.html (Summer 2000).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)

“It is hard to oppose an ideology with a tradition.”

A Confusion of Tongues http://www.city-journal.org/2008/18_2_otbie-immigrant_assimilation.html (Spring 2008).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)

“Mediocrity triumphs because it presents itself as democratic and because it is dull, and so for many does not seem worth struggling against.”

Leveling Britain http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon2007-03-22td.html (March 22, 2007).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)

“It is curious how an age of public self-revelation, and of the use of psychological jargon, should also be an age when self-examination is rarely practised.”

Psychiatric drug promotion and the politics of neoliberalism: The British Journal of Psychiatry is wrong to blame neoliberalism for the over-prescription of antidepressants http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/blog/archives/000941.php (May 24, 2006).
The Social Affairs Unit (2006 - 2008)

“Loose language suggests loose thought.”

Victim impact statements represent the sentimentalisation - the Diana-ification - of the criminal justice system, argues Theodore Dalrymple http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/blog/archives/001298.php (December 11, 2006).
The Social Affairs Unit (2006 - 2008)

“Political abstractions can disguise or change the meaning of the most elementary realities.”

Gillray’s Ungloomy Morality http://www.city-journal.org/html/12_1_oh_to_be.html (Winter 2002).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)

“Unilateral tolerance in a world of intolerance is like unilateral disarmament in a world of armed camps: it regards hope as a better basis for policy than reality.”

Why Theo Van Gogh Was Murdered http://www.city-journal.org/html/eon_11_15_04td.html (November 15, 2004).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)

“Frivolity without gaiety and earnestness without seriousness—a most unattractive combination.”

It’s This Bad http://www.city-journal.org/html/16_2_oh_to_be.html(Spring 2006).
City Journal (1998 - 2008)

“Where tax is solidarity, the national sport is tax evasion.”

"Tax is solidarity" - Theodore Dalrymple diagnoses France's malaise: Their intellectuals' belief that tax is solidarity and justice is fairness - but the national sport is tax evasion http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/blog/archives/001407.php (February 28, 2007).
The Social Affairs Unit (2006 - 2008)

“If we can sympathise only with the utterly blameless, then we can sympathise with no one, for all of us have contributed to our own misfortunes - it is a consequence of the human condition that we should. But it does nobody any favours to disguise from him the origins of his misfortunes, and pretend that they are all external to him in circumstances in which they are not.”

Addiction and the Ipswich Murders: Theodore Dalrymple argues that the five murdered women were driven on to the streets not by addiction itself, but by myths about addiction http://www.socialaffairsunit.org.uk/blog/archives/001306.php (December 14, 2006).
The Social Affairs Unit (2006 - 2008)