Saturday, October 12, 2024

Life at the bottom by Theodore Dalrymple. Quotes.

 -The welfare state is creating a miasma of subsidized apathy that blights the lives of its supposed beneficiaries. 

-Self-respect is the pre-condition of self-improvement. 

-When people satisfy every appetite with the same minimal effort and commitment, no wonder they trap themselves in squalor. 

-Misery increases to meet the means available for its alleviation. 

-The poor are a gold mine. 

-The worst poverty is he poverty of the soul.

-The squalor was not economic: but spiritual, moral, and cultural. 

-God helps him who helps himself. 

-There is no better and no worse, only popular and unpopular. 

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