Anthony Daniels Short Quotes

25 Sourced Quotes

View all Anthony Daniels Quotes
It is hard to oppose an ideology with a tradition.

Anthony Daniels
For intellectuals, everyone's mind is closed but their own.

Anthony Daniels
Where tax is solidarity, the national sport is tax evasion.

Anthony Daniels
In a corporate state, all attempts to reduce bureaucracy increase it.

Anthony Daniels
What youth considers liberation, maturity considers tasteless excess.

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

Anthony Daniels
The tattoo has a profound meaning: the superficiality of modern man's existence.

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

Anthony Daniels
It is easy to be lenient at other people's expense, and call it generosity of mind.

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

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

Anthony Daniels
There is no smoke without fire, and there is no ethically repugnant principle without logic.

Anthony Daniels
Wisdom and good governance require more than the consistent application of abstract principles.

Anthony Daniels
Frivolity without gaiety and earnestness without seriousness—a most unattractive combination.

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

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

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

Anthony Daniels
The main difference between working in an NHS hospital in Britain and a prison is that prison is much safer.

Anthony Daniels
Where hopes are unrealistic, fears often become exaggerated; where dreams alone are blueprints, nightmares result.

Anthony Daniels
The aim of untold millions is to be free to do exactly as they choose and for someone else to pay when things go wrong.

Anthony Daniels
For the sake of democracy, vigorous, civilized debate must replace the law of silence that political correctness has imposed.

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

Anthony Daniels
In a democratic age, only the behavior of the authorities is subject to public criticism; that of the people themselves, never.

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

Anthony Daniels
Where a reputation for intolerance is more feared than a reputation for vice itself, all manner of evil may be expected to flourish.

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

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

Anthony Daniels
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 Daniels
Mere absurdity has never prevented the triumph of bad ideas, if they accord with easily aroused fantasies of an existence freed of human limitations.

Anthony Daniels
The real and most pressing question raised by any social problem is: How do I appear concerned and compassionate to all my friends, colleagues, and peers?

Anthony Daniels