Culture Quote by Alasdair MacIntyre

Thinking about design is hard, but not thinking about it can be disastrous.

— Ralph Caplan

Everybody talks about population growth and its disastrous effect on climate change, food security and resource depletion, but nobody does anything about it

— Phil Harding

“Religion has had the disastrous effect of placing vitally important concepts, such as morality, happiness and love, in a supernatural realm inaccessible to man’s…

— George H. Smith

The Republican establishment's 2008 embrace of Palin set an irresponsibly low bar. Coincidence or not, a batch of nonsense-spewing, hard-right candidates quickly followed, often…

— William M. Daley

The most important change, and it's been going on for at least three decades, is the increasing "professionalization," if that's a word, of the…

— Walter Kiechel

The twentieth century saw a professionalization of fiction writing, particularly in its second half and particularly in the Anglo-Saxon world - not so much…

— Zia Haider Rahman

The twentieth century saw a professionalization of fiction writing, particularly in its second half and particularly in the Anglo-Saxon world - not so much…

— Zia Haider Rahman

The professionalization of poetry, or the balkanization, has come out of the fact that when you apply to most creative writing programs, you have…

— Robert Hass

Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical, or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine allegiance to the tradition…

— Alasdair MacIntyre

Tolkien can say that Aragorn became king and reigned for a hundred years, and he was wise and good. But Tolkien doesn’t ask the…

— George R. R. Martin

There's been a systematic propagandizing of American citizens for 30 years to make us forget what America is supposed to be and what our…

— Naomi Wolf

The modern school without systematic lectures turns out many graduates who lack retention. No sooner has the sound of the word left their teacher's…

— Arturo Alfonso Schomburg