Anthony Daniels Quotes

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Having been issued the false prospectus of happiness through unlimited sex, modern man concludes, when he is not happy with his life, that his sex has not been unlimited enough. If welfare does not eliminate squalor, we need more welfare; if sex does not bring happiness, we need more sex.

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Resentment is one of the few emotions that never lets you down, but it's useless. In fact, it's worse than useless, it's harmful, and we all suffer from it at some time in our lives.

Anthony Daniels
If a lack of money had prevented people from improving their lot, then mankind would still be living in the caves: unless you believe that investment capital first arrived from outer space.

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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.

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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.

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

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Truth is not the first casualty of war alone: it is the first casualty of populism.

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Henceforth, virtue was not the exercise of discipline, self-control or benevolence for the sake of others, but the expression of the right opinions of the moment.

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Reason can never be the absolute dictator of man's mental or moral economy.

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What youth considers liberation, maturity considers tasteless excess.

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I have never understood the liberal assumption that if there were justice in the world, there would be fewer rather than more prisoners.

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

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His greatest fear, or nightmare, is not to be thought hip or cool, and if to avoid that terrible fate it means that he has to glamorize evil—well, so be it.

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The victory over cruelty is never final, but, like the maintenance of freedom, requires eternal vigilance.

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Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence. Children grow up very fast but not very far. That is why it is possible for 14 year olds now to establish friendships with 26 year olds - because they know by the age of 14 all they are ever going to know.

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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.

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Civilization is the sum total of all those activities that allow men to transcend mere biological existence and reach for a richer mental, aesthetic, material, and spiritual life.

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There is nothing an official hates more than a person who makes up his own mind.

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We are like creatures so dazzled with our own technological prowess that we no longer think it necessary to consider the obvious.

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