Famous quotes containing the words born, american and/or theoretical:
“Yeah, if it hadnt been for me everybodyd be a lot better offmy wife and my kids and my friends.... I wish Id never been born. I suppose itd been better if Id never been born at all.”
—Frances Goodrich (18911984)
“The American Dream, the idea of the happy ending, is an avoidance of responsibility and commitment.”
—Jill Robinson (b. 1936)
“The hypothesis I wish to advance is that ... the language of morality is in ... grave disorder.... What we possess, if this is true, are the fragments of a conceptual scheme, parts of which now lack those contexts from which their significance derived. We possess indeed simulacra of morality, we continue to use many of the key expressions. But we havevery largely if not entirelylost our comprehension, both theoretical and practical, of morality.”
—Alasdair Chalmers MacIntyre (b. 1929)