Life at home wasn't very good and I had really left by the time I was 16 and didn't go back until… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
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
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
I've spent my life arguing for greater respect between men and women and anyone who takes the time to read my books… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“At the same time, instead of limiting the power of the state, alleged human rights have begun to enhance that power, and… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The future of mankind, for the socialist, is simple: pull down the existing order and allow the future to emerge. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Sometimes the intention is to shock us. But what is shocking first time around is boring and vacuous when repeated. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“We have to take our neighbours seriously, as people with an equal claim to protection, for whom we might be required, in… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“In Die Welt von Gestern, Stefan Zweig attributed the decline of civil order in Europe to the myth of progress.7 In all… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Environmental degradation has one cause above all others: the propensity of human beings to take the benefit and leave the costs to… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“union’, you at the same time license the would-be leaders. You give credentials to those who promise to guide society along its… — 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
