The music takes over the words and makes them speak to me in another language. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
I love Viennese waltzes and polkas, and especially ceilidhs and old-fashioned formation dancing. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
To live with someone who likes you, and whose judgement you respect, because you love them, does make quite a difference, I… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
What the word conservative means is not putting things back but conserving them. There are things that are threatened and you love… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
We should make the case for the things we love, even if we think that people will misunderstand them. That is why… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“The love of beauty is really a signal to free ourselves from that sensory attachment, and to begin the ascent of the… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“GK Chesterton once said that to criticise religion because it leads people to kill each other is like criticising love because it… — 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
