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 MacIntyreWe are waiting not for a Godot but for another-doubtless very different-St. Benedict.
Alasdair MacIntyreIt is only by participation in a rational, practice-based community that one becomes rational.
Alasdair MacIntyreModern 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
Alasdair MacIntyre