Europe Quotes by Roger Scruton

16 Europe quotes by Roger Scruton

Scruton’s sixteen reflections on Europe weave together cultural criticism and political philosophy, revealing his deep engagement with identity and tradition. This set offers a concise yet rich glimpse into his intellectual legacy.

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The conservative is the one who understands his own society from within and loves and defends it.

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Conservatives reveal themselves through their care for ordinary human things, and their recognition of the fragility of decency and the need to…

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Conservatism is itself a modernism, and in this lies the secret of its success.

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Modernism in architecture went hand in hand with socialist and fascist projects to rid old Europe of its hierarchical past

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Cameron's resignation really was the death knell of the Conservative Party as we knew it because that's something a proper Conservative politician…

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The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements are rare…

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A reactionary is fixed on the past and wanting to return to it; a conservative wishes to adapt what is best in…

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What the word conservative means is not putting things back but conserving them. There are things that are threatened and you love…

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There has been throughout this country and throughout Europe really an attempt silence the conservative voice. We get identified, caricatured and then…

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Conservatism is about freedom, yes. But it is also about the institutions and attitudes that shape the responsible citizen, and ensure that…

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Given the right to - given the opportunity to vote, I voted for Brexit because I've never approved really of the European…

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But the European Union does not have a concept of national identity. It was set up to abolish that idea, not to…

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“The market-based legal order of the Brussels bureaucracy helped to fill the legal vacuum created by communism, and was warmly received on…

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“The leading virtue of conservative politics as I see it is the preference for procedure over ideological programs. Liberals tend to believe…

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Conservatives hold on to things not only because they are attached to them, but also because they do not see the sense…

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Leftwing people find it very hard to get on with rightwing people, because they believe that they are evil. Whereas I have…

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Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter.

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I've never been an optimist, but that's fine because pessimists have the possibility of being agreeably surprised.

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Unlike every other product that is now manufactured for the table, wine exists in as many varieties as there are people who produce it.…

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The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.

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“I think we can all see the force of the idea that there are certain things that cannot be done to human beings –…

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When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded.

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“Western democracies did not create the virtue of citizenship; on the contrary, they grew from it. Nothing is more evident in The Federalist than…

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“If one looks back to the French Revolution, one sees just how easy it is for the doctrine of “human rights” to become an…

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“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…

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Conservatives hold on to things not only because they are attached to them, but also because they do not see the sense in radical…

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