Anthony Daniels Quotes - Page 2

• In the modern view, unbridled personal freedom is the only good to be pursued; any obstacle to it is a problem to be overcome.

  Anthony Daniels

  Views, Overcoming, Obstacles

  "All Sex, All the Time". www.city-journal.org. Summer 2000.

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• On a film set everyone is very cool. Well, blase really.

  Anthony Daniels

  Film, Wells, Very Cool

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• I don't do that many appearances at conventions. I like to keep them special for me. And for the fans, I hope.

  Anthony Daniels

  Special, Fans, Appearance

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• Don't call me a mindless philosopher, you overweight glob of grease.

  Anthony Daniels

  Grease, Books And Movies, Philosopher

  "Fictional character: C-3PO". "Star Wars: Episode IV - A New Hope", www.imdb.com. 1977.

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• You know, a lot of people are loath to go to an orchestral concert because they are intimidated by the thought.

  Anthony Daniels

  People, Concerts, Knows

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• We seem to be made to suffer. It's our lot in life.

  Anthony Daniels

  Suffering, Made, Star Wars Movie

  Ed Rodley, Boston Museum of Science, Anthony Daniels (2005). “Star wars: where science meets imagination”, Natl Geographic Society

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• Civilization is the sum total of all those activities that allow men to transcend mere biological existence and reach for a richer mental, aesthetic, material, and spiritual life.

  Anthony Daniels

  Spiritual, Men, Civilization

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• The attempt to regulate relations between people too closely, by means of the law, in the name of an abstraction such as equality, leads to both absurdity and cruelty. The British are fast turning themselves into a nation of slaves, where even the slave-masters are not free.

  Anthony Daniels

  Mean, Law, Names

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• If all our political and intellectual elite offers by way of a national culture is "pop music, gambling, fashionable clothes or television," then we can neither mount a convincing intellectual defense against our enemies, nor hope to integrate intelligent, inquiring, and unfulfilled Muslim youths young men principally, of course to our way of life.

  Anthony Daniels

  Intelligent, Men, Gambling

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• Blanket compassion will shift the distribution decisively towards the manipulative end of the spectrum, and may paradoxically decrease the compassion with which the genuinely despairing are treated: for they are apt to get lost in the great mass of pseudo-distress and manipulation, and often their conduct draws less attention precisely because it is less attention-seeking.

  Anthony Daniels

  Compassion, Attention, May

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• Modernity is the most transient of qualities.

  Anthony Daniels

  Quality, Modernity, Transient

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• It is strange, is it not, how the more strenuously we deny the importance of race in human affairs, the more obsessed with it and the touchier on the subject we grow.

  Anthony Daniels

  Race, Strange, Affair

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• Cruelty is like hope: it springs eternal.

  Anthony Daniels

  Spring, Cruelty, Eternal

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• Children in school are not students, they are pupils. It is typical of certain kinds of politicians that they should regard children as adults, the better subsequently, and consequently, to regard adults as children.

  Anthony Daniels

  Children, School, Typical

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• If we can sympathise only with the utterly blameless, then we can sympathise with no one, for all of us have contributed to our own misfortunes - it is a consequence of the human condition that we should. But it does nobody any favours to disguise from him the origins of his misfortunes, and pretend that they are all external to him in circumstances in which they are not.

  Anthony Daniels

  Doe, Favour, Should

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• It is hard to oppose an ideology with a tradition.

  Anthony Daniels

  Tradition, Ideology, Hard

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• Mediocrity triumphs because it presents itself as democratic and because it is dull, and so for many does not seem worth struggling against.

  Anthony Daniels

  Struggle, Triumph, Doe

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

  Anthony Daniels

  Thinking, Prowess, Obvious

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• 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.

  Anthony Daniels

  Memories, Past, Views

  "Selective Memory". www.city-journal.org. July 6, 2004.

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• Nationalism is fraught with dangers, of course, but so is the blind refusal to recognize that attachment to one's own culture, traditions, and history is a creative, normal, and healthy part of human experience.

  Anthony Daniels

  Attachment, Creative, Healthy

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• The intellectual's struggle to deny the obvious is never more desperate than when reality is unpleasant and at variance with his preconceptions and when full acknowledgment of it would undermine the foundations of his intellectual worldview.

  Anthony Daniels

  Struggle, Reality, Intellectual

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• Where fashion in clothes, bodily adornment, and music are concerned, it is the underclass that increasingly sets the pace. Never before has there been so much downward cultural aspiration.

  Anthony Daniels

  Fashion, Clothes, Pace

  "Life at the Bottom: The Worldview That Makes the Underclass". Book by Theodore Dalrymple, 2001.

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