Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Conservatism is itself a modernism, and in this lies the secret of its success. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Conservatives reveal themselves through their care for ordinary human things, and their recognition of the fragility of decency and the need to… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The conservative is the one who understands his own society from within and loves and defends it. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
A reactionary is fixed on the past and wanting to return to it; a conservative wishes to adapt what is best in… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Cameron's resignation really was the death knell of the Conservative Party as we knew it because that's something a proper Conservative politician… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Leftwing people find it very hard to get on with rightwing people, because they believe that they are evil. Whereas I have… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
But the European Union does not have a concept of national identity. It was set up to abolish that idea, not to… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Conservatives hold on to things not only because they are attached to them, but also because they do not see the sense… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Given the right to - given the opportunity to vote, I voted for Brexit because I've never approved really of the European… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
There has been throughout this country and throughout Europe really an attempt silence the conservative voice. We get identified, caricatured and then… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“The market-based legal order of the Brussels bureaucracy helped to fill the legal vacuum created by communism, and was warmly received on… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“The leading virtue of conservative politics as I see it is the preference for procedure over ideological programs. Liberals tend to believe… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
What the word conservative means is not putting things back but conserving them. There are things that are threatened and you love… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Conservatism is about freedom, yes. But it is also about the institutions and attitudes that shape the responsible citizen, and ensure that… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter. — Roger Scruton Copy Share
“So conceived, the English police force served to emphasize a fundamental truth about the English law, which is that it exists not to control… — Roger Scruton Copy Share
My 2018 ended with a hate storm, in response to my appointment as chair of the government's Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission. — Roger Scruton Copy Share
I've never been an optimist, but that's fine because pessimists have the possibility of being agreeably surprised. — Roger Scruton Copy Share
Unlike every other product that is now manufactured for the table, wine exists in as many varieties as there are people who produce it.… — Roger Scruton Copy Share
The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy. — Roger Scruton Copy Share
“I think we can all see the force of the idea that there are certain things that cannot be done to human beings –… — Roger Scruton Copy Share
When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded. — Roger Scruton Copy Share
“Western democracies did not create the virtue of citizenship; on the contrary, they grew from it. Nothing is more evident in The Federalist than… — Roger Scruton Copy Share
“If one looks back to the French Revolution, one sees just how easy it is for the doctrine of “human rights” to become an… — Roger Scruton Copy Share
“I say it was immediately apparent, but it was not apparent to the intellectual class, which has remained largely wedded to the post-war consensus… — Roger Scruton Copy Share
Conservatives hold on to things not only because they are attached to them, but also because they do not see the sense in radical… — Roger Scruton Copy Share
“Academic philosophers in the English speaking world still regard philosophy as Locke defined it in the 17th century, as “the handmaiden of the sciences”:… — Roger Scruton Copy Share
Delia Smith is, actually, my bete noire. I consider her a most pernicious influence. — Roger Scruton Copy Share
