40 Quotes by Alasdair MacIntyre

I can only answer the question ‘What am I to do?’ if I can answer the prior question ‘Of what story or stories do I find myself a part?’

The good life for man is the life spent in seeking for the good life for man, and the virtues necessary for the seeking are those which will enable us to understand what more and what else the good life for man is.

Truth has been displaced as a value and replaced by psychological effectiveness.

It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational.

Facts, like telescopes and wigs for gentlemen, were a seventeenth century invention.

Virtues are dispositions not only to act in particular ways, but also to feel in particular ways. To act virtuously is not, as Kant was later to think, to act against inclination; it is to act from inclination formed by the cultivation of the virtues.

The way to bring out the best in the British people is to attack them.

Morality which is no particular socity’s morality is to be found nowhere.

Modern politics is civil war carried on by other means.