"[M]odern society is indeed often, at least in surface appearance, nothing but a collection of strangers, each pursuing his or her own interests under minimal constraints."

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Source : Alasdair MacIntyre (2013). “After Virtue”, p.290, A&C Black

Alasdair MacIntyre

#Culture Quotes #Stranger Quotes #Appearance Quotes

“Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either lead into freedom or constitute a proof for its existence.”
“We all have some taste or other, of too ancient a date to admit of our remembering it was an acquired one.”
“I'd just like to be in films that I would like to see. I think of myself as an entertainment arsenal. Like I have my acting bazooka and my music machete. And you don't know what I'm going to come at you with.”

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“When I were a young man, I used to play baseball and steal bases just like Jackie Robinson. If the empire would rule me out, I would get mad and hit the empire.”
“More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly.”
“If the great Western experiment fails and we end up living in totalitarian war-on-terrorism states, one day someone's going to say, 'Well democracy doesn't work because they had to give it up'.”
“When you achieve your Dreams It's not so much what you get, It's who you become.”
“When the Grateful Dead needed a quality sound system to deliver our sonic payload, I learned electronics and speaker design.”

Source : "There’s a Fire on the Mountain" by Mickey Hart, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 22, 2011.

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