Obesity is the result of a loss of self-control. Indeed, loss of self-control might be said to be the defining social (or anti-social) characteristic of our age: public drunkenness, excessive gambling, promiscuity and common-or-garden rudeness are all examples of our collective loss of self-control.
Theodore DalrympleEquality of Ugliness: If we can't all live in a beautiful place we must all live in an ugly place.
Theodore DalrympleThere is nothing that an intellectual less likes to change than his mind, or a politician his policy.
Theodore DalrympleNonjudgmentalism is not really nonjudgmental. It is the judgment that . . . everything is the same, nothing is better. This is as barbaric and untruthful a doctrine as has yet emerged from the fertile mind of man.
Theodore Dalrymple