Quote by Theodore Dalrymple on Lies, Silence, and Social Control

„When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is to co-operate with evil, and in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control.“

Theodore DalrympleTheodore Dalrymple on the consequences of forced lying and silence for morality and social control.
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Theodore Dalrymple is the pen name of British psychiatrist and writer Anthony Daniels, known for his critical analyses of social and cultural phenomena.

Theodore Dalrymple analyzes the moral and social consequences of forced lying and silence as tools of oppression.


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Theodore Dalrymple is the pen name of Anthony Daniels, a British psychiatrist, cultural critic, and author. He is renowned for his sharp commentaries on social, cultural, and political issues, often marked by conservative views. His work often addresses the consequences of state intervention and the decline of modern society.

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"Political correctness is communist propaganda writ small. In my study of communist societies, I came to the conclusion that the purpose of communist propaganda was not to persuade or convince, not to inform, but to humiliate; and therefore, the less it corresponded to reality the better. When people are forced to remain silent when they are being told the most obvious lies, or even worse when they are forced to repeat the lies themselves, they lose once and for all their sense of probity. To assent to obvious lies is in some small way to become evil oneself. One's standing to resist anything is thus eroded, and even destroyed. A society of emasculated liars is easy to control. I think if you examine political correctness, it has the same effect and is intended to." Theodore Dalrymple
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