If all our political and intellectual elite offers by way of a national culture is "pop music, gambling, fashionable clothes or television," then we can neither mount a convincing intellectual defense against our enemies, nor hope to integrate intelligent, inquiring, and unfulfilled Muslim youths young men principally, of course to our way of life.

Anthony Daniels

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Everybody uses mime and gesture in real life, though we don't realize it. It's very useful as a performance technique, though it can be boring to watch on its own.

Anthony Daniels

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I have a greater appreciation for kitchen appliances, having played one.

Anthony Daniels

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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.

Anthony Daniels

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

Anthony Daniels

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

Anthony Daniels

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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.

Anthony Daniels

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Two or three notes of music can instantly make you feel sad or tense or afraid or angry. To do that in words is much more difficult.

Anthony Daniels

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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.

Anthony Daniels

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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

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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.

Anthony Daniels

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We have people being a little uncomfortable in their life on Earth with finances and so on, so Science Fantasy or Science Fiction allows people to think that there are possibilities beyond the gravity of our planet.

Anthony Daniels

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It is hard to oppose an ideology with a tradition.

Anthony Daniels

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Childhood in large parts of modern Britain, at any rate, has been replaced by premature adulthood, or rather adolescence

Anthony Daniels

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

Anthony Daniels

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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.

Anthony Daniels

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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.

Anthony Daniels

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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.

Anthony Daniels

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

Anthony Daniels

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Blanket compassion will shift the distribution decisively towards the manipulative end of the spectrum, and may paradoxically decrease the compassion with which the genuinely despairing are treated: for they are apt to get lost in the great mass of pseudo-distress and manipulation, and often their conduct draws less attention precisely because it is less attention-seeking.

Anthony Daniels

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[There] is no class so dangerous as the idle educated.

Anthony Daniels

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