Fantasy consists in a morbid fascination with unrealities, which secretly transforms itself into a desire to make them real. Imagination is a… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
In all the areas of life where people have sought and found consolation through forbidding their desires-sex in particular, and taste in… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
States are more like people than they are like anything else: they exist by purpose, reason, suffering, and joy. And peace between… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
America is the one place where you can talk of 'this nation' and everyone knows exactly what you think. People put a… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“There is an important insight contained in the book of Genesis, concerning the loss of eros when the body takes over. Adam… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The Scottish desire for independence is, to some extent, a fabrication. They want to identify themselves as Scots but still to be… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Politics is a matter of day-to-day improvisation, and it often seems as though the major parties are guided only by the desire… — 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
