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Alasdair MacIntyre has 18 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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Those emotive theorists who said that the function of moral utterance was to evince emotion would... have been correct if they had…
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Charles II once invited the members of the Royal Society to explain to him why a dead fish weighs more than the…
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Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North American culture,…
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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 sons who…
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I can only answer the question ‘What am I to do?’ if I can answer the prior question ‘Of what story or…
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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, radicals, and…
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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 allegiance to…
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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 there were…
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Jane was my wicked stepmother: she was generous, affectionate and resourceful; she salvaged my schooling and I owe her an unknowable debt…
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The new-come stepmother hates the children born to a first wife.
— Euripides
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O neglectful Nature, wherefore art thou thus partial, becoming to some of thy children a tender and benignant mother, to others a…
— Leonardo da Vinci
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My son has two loving parents and an extended family, whether it's cousins or stepmothers or boyfriends. My son is surrounded by…
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Nature is the mother and the habitat of man, even if sometimes a stepmother and an unfriendly home.
— John Dewey
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My mother, father, stepmother and surrogate mother have all died of cancer; my best friend has got terminal cancer and at least…
— Arabella Weir
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Better a serpent than a stepmother!
— Euripides
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To be sure a stepmother to a girl is a different thing to a second wife to a man!
— Elizabeth Gaskell
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It is through hearing stories about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings, wolves that suckle twin boys, youngest sons who…
— Alasdair MacIntyre
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Strong and rare natures are thus created; misery, almost always a stepmother, is sometimes a mother; privation gives birth to power of…
— Victor Hugo
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A day is sometimes our mother, sometimes our stepmother.
— Hesiod
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Things we are accustomed to regard as myth or fairy story are very much present in people's lives. Nice people behave like…
— Diana Wynne Jones
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