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Quotation from After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory by Alasdair MacIntyre
“We are waiting not for a Godot, but for another—doubtless very different—St. Benedict.”
After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, Chapter 18, closing sentence (Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, 3rd ed. (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007), p. 263; wording checked on 4 Nov 2026 against an archive.org scan of the third edition)
The last line of the book, comparing the present to the decline of Rome and calling for new communities that sustain the virtues.
Citation: "We are waiting not for a Godot, but for another—doubtless very different—St. Benedict." — Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, Chapter 18, closing sentence (Alasdair MacIntyre, After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory, 3rd ed. (Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press, 2007), p. 263; wording checked on 4 Nov 2026 against an archive.org scan of the third edition). (id macintyre-after-virtue-q2)
