“a free economy is an economy run by free beings. And free beings are responsible beings. Economic transactions in a regime of… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“In The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith argued that self-interest can solve this problem. Given a free economy and an impartial rule… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“this is to mistake the effect for the cause. In a free economy such ways of making money emerge by an invisible… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“The important person in a free economy is not the manager but the entrepreneur – the one who takes risks and meets… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
If you're going to have a free economy, one in which the ordinary citizen can dispose of his own income, you're going… — 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
