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What am I to do?' if I can answer the prior question 'Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?
— Alasdair MacIntyre
Like all truly selfish people, Kliemann believed the minutiae of his life must be fascinating to all.
— Ben Macintyre
For Kant one can be both good and stupid; but for Aristotle stupidity of a certain kind precludes goodness.
— Alasdair MacIntyre
Would certainly not have admired Jesus Christ and he would have been horrified by St Paul - does
— Alasdair MacIntyre
The mock rationality of the debate conceals the arbitrariness of the will and power at work in its resolution. It
— Alasdair MacIntyre
The way to bring out the best in the British people is to attack them.
— Alasdair MacIntyre
But the concept of a person is that of a character abstracted from a history.
— Alasdair MacIntyre
The introduction of the word 'intuition' by a moral philosopher is always a signal that something has gone badly wrong with an argument.
— Alasdair MacIntyre
Truth has been displaced as a value and replaced by psychological effectiveness.
— Alasdair MacIntyre
The true genre of the life is neither hagiography nor saga, but tragedy.
— Alasdair MacIntyre
It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational.
— Alasdair MacIntyre
The attempted professionalization of serious and systematic thinking has had a disastrous effect upon our culture
— Alasdair MacIntyre
We are not waiting for a Godot, but for another-doubtless very different-St. Benedict.
— Alasdair MacIntyre
What our laws show is the extent and degree to which conflict has to be suppressed.
— Alasdair MacIntyre
To disarm while being best armed, out of an elevation of sensibility-that is the means to real peace ...
— Ben Macintyre
What is the use of living if you cannot eat cheese and pickles?
— Ben Macintyre
History is neither a prison nor a museum, nor is it a set of materials for self-congratulation.
— Alasdair MacIntyre
A willingness to offer advice on matters that are quite beyond the ken of the adviser seems to be a habit in this part of the world.
— Alex Macintyre
I can be said truly to know who and what I am only because there are others who can be said truly to know who and what I am.
— Alasdair MacIntyre
Christians have given atheists less and less in which to disbelieve
— Alasdair MacIntyre
At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.
— Alasdair MacIntyre
Morality which is no particular socity's morality is to be found nowhere.
— Alasdair MacIntyre
Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth century invention.
— Alasdair MacIntyre
Sam Brewer enjoyed discussing Middle Eastern politics with Philby; Philby enjoyed sleeping with his wife.
— Ben Macintyre
If you put into one room everyone who considered themselves a Nietzschean, there would be a bloodbath.
— Ben Macintyre
The word most consistently used to describe Kim Philby was "charm", that intoxicating, beguiling and occasionally lethal English quality.
— Ben Macintyre
Moral judgments are linguistic survivals from the practices of classical theism which have lost the context provided by these practices.
— Alasdair MacIntyre
Eccentricity is one of those English traits that look like frailty but mask a concealed strength; individuality disguised as oddity.
— Ben Macintyre
The exercise of the virtues is itself a crucial component of the good life for man
— Alasdair MacIntyre
The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
— Ben Macintyre
The fatal conceit of most spies is to believe they are loved, in a relationship between equals, and not merely manipulated.
— Ben Macintyre
We are never more (and sometimes less) than the co-authors of our own narratives.
— Alasdair MacIntyre
All power tends to coopt, and absolute power coopts absolutely.
— Alasdair MacIntyre