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“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.”
― After Virtue
― After Virtue
“The bourgeoisie who could afford to eliminate 'social death' by avoiding retirement, created 'childhood' to keep their young under control.”
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“This critique of liberalism should not be interpreted as a sign of any sympathy on my part for contemporary conservatism. That conservatism is in too many ways a mirror image of the liberalism that it professedly”
― After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
― After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory
“Participatory democracy demands low-energy technology, and free people must travel the road to productive social relations at the speed of a bicycle.”
― Energy and Equity
― Energy and Equity
“Anarchism is an ideology which is too realistic not to comprehend the modern world and real events. The part taken by its practitioners in these events is based on a clear understanding of the goal to be attained and the means to be used to reach it...”
― My Visit to the Kremlin
― My Visit to the Kremlin
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