Modernist buildings exclude dialogue, and the void that they create around themselves is not a public space but a desertification — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
There are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines - lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity - the habit of… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
There is a deep human need for beauty and if you ignore that need in architecture your buildings will not last — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
If you consider only utility, the things you build will soon be useless... nobody wants to be in it. — 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
Classical buildings endure because they are loved, admired and accepted, and enjoy an innate adaption to human needs and purposes. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
I've never been an optimist, but that's fine because pessimists have the possibility of being agreeably surprised. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
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 Image
The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“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 Image
When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
Delia Smith is, actually, my bete noire. I consider her a most pernicious influence. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
