67 Quotes by 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.

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

The nearer emotional life approaches to hysteria, to continual outward show, the less genuine it becomes. Feeling becomes equated with vehemence of expression, so that insincerity becomes permanent.

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.

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

In Britain, journalists often view comparisons with our society going back two, three, or seven centuries as more relevant than comparisons going back two, three, or seven decades. Drunkenness centuries ago is more illuminating than comparative sobriety 30 years ago. The distant past, selectively mined for evidence that justifies our current conduct, becomes more important than living memory.

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

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?

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