Logo
A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern w

A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and revolutionaries who revive old doctrines, while their conservative and reactionary opponents are the inventors of new ones. – Alasdair Chalmers Macintyre

No other quotes found from this author.
Other Quotes from
Principles
category

Principle, particularly moral principal, can never be a weathervane, spinning around this way and that with the shifting winds of expediency. Moral principle is a compass forever fixed and forever true. And that is as important in business as it is in the classroom. – Edward R. Lyman

Category:
Principles

The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other. – James Fenimore Cooper

Category:
Principles

Success is the ability to rise above principle. – Gerald Barzan

Category:
Principles

In any assembly the simplest way to stop transacting business and split the ranks is to appeal to a principal. – Jacques Barzun

Category:
Principles

Random Quotes

Not brute force but only persuasion and faith are the kings of this world. – Thomas Carlyle

Category:
Faith

One of the beauties of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo is the very delicate and strange relationship between the two main characters. – Stellan Skarsgard

Category:
relationship

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less. – Brendan Behan

Category:
Marriage

Through the harsh design of fate, Florida was dealt the unfortunate circumstances of bearing the brunt of not one but two hurricanes, and it appears more dark clouds are poised to visit the Sunshine State. – Ginny Brown-Waite

Category:
design