‘St Paul and St Thomas Aquinas tell us how there is always more to be hoped for in any and every situation than the empirical facts seem to show.’
— Alasdair MacIntyre, “How Aristotelianism Can Become Revolutionary,” Philosophy of Management 7/1 (2008), p. 19.
‘…however dominant a social system may be, the very meaning of its domination involves a limitation or selection of the activities it covers, so that by definition it cannot exhaust all social experience, which therefore always potentially contains space for alternative acts and alternative intentions which are not yet articulated as a social institution or even project.’
Politics and Letters (London: New Left Books, 1979), p. 252).