The main aim of conservative politicians is to get through to the next election without being noticed. Nothing is more embarrassing to… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The true face of religion belongs to the re-enchantment of our injured civilization; faith is a way of filling all the spiritual… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
We live in an extremely anxious age in which the core of our beliefs has been undermined to a great extent by… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Faith exalts the human heart, by removing it from the market-place, making it sacred and unexchangeable. Under the jurisdiction of religion our… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have been useful to our ancestors, but… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“Christians are under an obligation to bear witness to their faith, but this does not mean inflicting their faith on other people… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
In place of the old beliefs of a civilization based on godliness, judgment and historical loyalty, young people are given the new… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“Whatever our religion and our private convictions, we are the collective inheritors of things both excellent and rare, and political life, for… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
State solutions are imposed from above; they are often without corrective devices, and cannot easily be reversed on the proof of failure.… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“Belief without any practice is of no use to us. But there are two sides to religious practice: one is the ritualistic,… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“We live in an extremely anxious age in which the core of our beliefs has been undermined to a great extent by… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“We believe that if the argument for equality has merit, it does so because it protects difference. Equality used to allow those… — 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
