It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational.

Modern systematic politics, whether liberal, conservative, radical, or socialist, simply has to be rejected from a standpoint that owes genuine allegiance to the tradition of the virtues; for modern politics itself expresses in its institutional forms a systematic rejection of that tradition

The attempted professionalization of serious and systematic thinking has had a disastrous effect upon our culture

It is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational.

At the foundation of moral thinking lie beliefs in statements the truth of which no further reason can be given.

We are waiting not for a Godot but for another-doubtless very different-St. Benedict.

There ought not be two histories, one of political and moral action and one of political and moral theorizing, because there were not two pasts, one populated only by actions, the other only by theories. Every action is the bearer and expression of more or less theory-laden beliefs and concepts; every piece of theorizing and every expression of belief is a politcal and moral action.