"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."

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Source : Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.175, A&C Black

Alasdair MacIntyre

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“The way we get past capitalism is by building on the healthy non-capitalist aspects of our world while we also do pitched battle with the capitalist ones that we have a fair chance of winning against. In that way we build a better world and shrink the destructive capitalist practices that are part of the social fabric.”

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“Thereâ€™s something about hospital walls; though only made of bricks and plaster, when youâ€™re inside them the noise, the reality of the teeming city beyond, disappears; itâ€™s just outside the door, but it might as well be a magical land far, far away.”
“Right now, I wish Iâ€™d stayed because I want you at my side. That sounds pretty selfish, but I donâ€™t mean it that way. You just never needed me that way; I said it to you once as I was leavingâ€”that you love me, but you donâ€™t need me. You donâ€™t lean. But I admire that about you, and I could use some of your strength right now.”
“Wealth stays with us a little moment if at all: only our characters are steadfast, not our gold.”
“Before dying, my last wish will be to see MS Dhoni's World Cup Winning Six.”
“A sailor chooses the wind that takes the ship from a safe port. Ah, yes, but once you're abroad, as you have seen, winds have a mind of their own. Be careful, Charlotte, careful of the wind you choose.”
“In her mind's eye she saw it, saw it all at last: the rolling armies and the flames of battle; the graves and pits and dying cries of a hundred million souls; the spreading darkness, like a black wing stretching over the earth; the last, bitter hours of cruelty and sorrow, and the terrible, final flights; death's great dominion over all, and, at the last, empty cities, becalmed by the silence of a hundred years. Already these things were coming to pass.”
“You don't get to decide your part in the school play, but you do get to decide whether or not you play it well.”

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