To base one’s rejection of what exists – and hence one’s prescription for a better world – upon the petty frustrations of one’s youth, as surely many middle-class radicals have done, is profoundly egotistical. Unless consciously rejected, this impulse leads to a tendency throughout life to judge the rightness or wrongness of policies by one’s personal emotional response to them, as if emotion were an infallible guide.
-Theodore Dalrymple
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