Alasdair Macintyre said this quote

“ Plato in both the Gorgias and the Republic looked back to Socrates and asserted that it is better to suffer tortures on the rack than to have a soul burdened with the guilt of doing evil. Aristotle does not confront this position directly: he merely emphasizes that it is better still both to be free from having done evil and to be free from being tortured on the rack. ”

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Imprisoning philosophy within the professionalizations and specializations of an institutionalized curriculum, after the manner of our contemporary European and North American culture, is arguably a good deal more effective in neutralizing its effects than either religious censorship or political terror

~ Alasdair Macintyre

History is neither a prison nor a museum, nor is it a set of materials for self-congratulation.

~ Alasdair Macintyre

All power tends to coopt, and absolute power coopts absolutely.

~ Alasdair Macintyre

It is through hearing stories about wicked stepmothers, lost children, good but misguided kings, wolves that suckle twin boys, youngest sons who receive no inheritance but must make their own way in the world, and eldest sons who waste their inheritance on riotous living and go into exile to live with the swine, that children learn or mislearn both what a child and what a parent is, what the cast of characters may be in the drama into which they have been born and what the ways of the world are.

~ Alasdair Macintyre