"The way to bring out the best in……" — Alasdair MacIntyre
"The way to bring out the best in the British people is to attack them."
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Alasdair MacIntyre
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18 Quotes by Alasdair MacIntyre
Alasdair MacIntyre has 18 quotes on this site.
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Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would... have been correct if…
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Charles II once invited the members of the Royal Society to explain to him why a dead fish weighs more…
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Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North…
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At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.
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It is through hearing stories about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings, wolves that suckle twin boys, youngest…
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I can only answer the question ‘What am I to do?’ if I can answer the prior question ‘Of what…
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The attempted professionalization of serious and systematic thinking has had a disastrous effect upon our culture
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A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators,…
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Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?
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Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical, or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine…
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We are waiting not for a Godot but for another-doubtless very different-St. Benedict,
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There ought not be two histories, one of political and moral action and one of political and moral theorizing, because…
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More Attack Quotes
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Oh! do not attack me with your watch. A watch is always too fast or too slow. I cannot be…
— Jane Austen
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It is not seen as insane when a fighter, under an attack that will inevitable lead to his death, chooses…
— Emilie Autumn
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I know a lot of shows are like, 'Here's the pages,' right before they start filming. I'd have a heart…
— Alan Ball
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When Religion and Royalty are swept away, the people will attack the great, and after the great, they will fall…
— Honore de Balzac
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I'm a complete hypochondriac. If my heart starts beating a little faster than normal, I think I'm having an attack.
— Antonio Banderas
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Our task force put to sea in early January 1942, to attack the Japanese in the Marshall and Gilbert islands,…
— Jack Adams
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But the West is trying to weaken Islam from outside and inside. They attack our people and invade our countries…
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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The United Nations charter gives every nation the right to self defence, therefore when the American embassies were bombed it…
— Benazir Bhutto
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Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade…
— Joe Biden
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A zeal for the defence of their country led these heroes to the scene of action, though with a few…
— Daniel Boone
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Attack those concepts such as 'third world.' Think about it. If we look at it in terms of numbers, then…
— H. Rap Brown
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We learned to be patient observers like the owl. We learned cleverness from the crow, and courage from the jay,…
— Tom Brown, Jr.
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