Quotes of Theodore Dalrymple - somelinesforyou

“ To regret religion is to regret Western civilization. ”

- Theodore Dalrymple

“ For good or ill, God is dead in Europe and I do not see much chance of revival except in the wake of catastrophe. Not quite everything has been lost of the religious attitude, however; individuals still think of themselves as a being of unique importance, but without the countervailing humility of considering themselves to have a duty towards the author of their being, a being inconceivably larger than themselves. Far from inducing a more modest selfconception in man, the loss of religious belief has inflamed his selfimportance enormously. ”

- Theodore Dalrymple
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