Whenever those immersed in the bureaucratic culture of the age try to think their way through to the moral foundations of what they are and what they do, they will discover suppressed Nietzschean premises. And consequently it is possible to predict with confidence that in the apparently quite unlikely contexts of bureaucratically managed modern societies there will periodically emerge social movements informed by just that kind of prophetic irrationalism of which Nietzsche's thought is the ancestor. Indeed just because and insofar as contemporary Marxism is Weberian in substance we can expect prophetic irrationalisms of the left as well as of the Right. Alasdair MacIntyre
One rarely falls in love without being as much attracted to what is interestingly wrong with someone as what is objectively healthy.
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Alain De Botton
Do what is right, not what is easy nor what is popular.
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Roy T. Bennett
Stop doing what is easy. Start doing what is right.
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Roy T. Bennett
Stop doing what is easy or popular. Start doing what is right.
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Roy T. Bennett
A mistake isn’t a mistake unless it can’t be put right.
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Sophie Kinsella
More Quotes By Alasdair MacIntyre
Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North American culture, is arguably a good deal more effective in neutralizing its effects than either religious censorship or political terror
History is neither a prison nor a museum, nor is it a set of materials for self-congratulation.
All power tends to coopt, and absolute power coopts absolutely.
It is through hearing stories about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings, wolves that suckle twin boys, youngest sons who receive no inheritance but must make their own way in the world, and eldest sons who waste their inheritance on riotous living and...
At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.
