Having been issued the false prospectus of happiness through unlimited sex, modern man concludes, when he is not happy with his life, that his sex ha… - Theodore Dalrymple

Reason can never be the absolute dictator of man’s mental or moral economy.

Even [Marx], whose information about people came mainly from books, must have known that the Manifesto’s depiction of the relations between men and women was grossly distorted. His rage was therefore—as is so much modern rage—entirely synthetic, perhaps an attempt to assume a generosity of spirit, or love of mankind, that he knew he did not have but felt he ought to have

The withdrawal symptoms from opiates are not severe and never dangerous, though of course they do exist. Insofar as they are genuinely feared, there has been a campaign of exaggeration about them for nearly 200 years.