For two centuries the English countryside has been an icon of national identity and the loved reminder of our island home. Yet… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“Robert Conquest once announced three laws of politics, the first of which says that everyone is right-wing in the matters he knows… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“The leading virtue of conservative politics as I see it is the preference for procedure over ideological programs. Liberals tend to believe… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“Political order, in short, requires cultural unity, something that politics itself can never provide.” — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“The long-term effect of this has been to open Western societies to immigration, and to impart an ideal of citizenship that, it… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“The first is that the conservative cause has been polluted by the ideology of big business, by the global ambitions of the… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“There is a particular view, still popular among left-wing intellectuals in the West, that the Soviet system was “socialism gone wrong.” This… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“Gradually this truth is beginning to dawn on the political class, so that even socialists have come to accept that the poor… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
Conservatism, for me, is the philosophy and the politics of attachment. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
What makes a politician accountable is not that there are millions of people who vote, but that there are procedures of government… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“Top-down government breeds irresponsible individuals, and the confiscation of civil society by the state leads to a widespread refusal among the citizens… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“This is possible only if we retain our trust in negotiation and in the sincere desire, among politicians, to compromise with their… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“Oakeshott believed that civil association has been increasingly displaced by enterprise, under pressure from political elites, managers, parties and ideologues. It is… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The welfare state that is built upon this conception seems to prove precisely away from the conservative conception of authoritative and personal… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
For Conservatives, all disputes over law, liberty and justice are addressed to a historic and existing community. The root of politics, they… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“the growing materialism of our societies. This materialism informs political discourse at every level, making wealth and its distribution the only issue… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“The author assumed that the main task of government is to distribute the collective wealth of society among its members, and that,… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“The Anglo-American tradition of constitutional thinking should be understood in this way, as addressing the question of how to limit the power… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
[Burke] emphasized that the new forms of politics, which hope to organize society around the rational pursuit of liberty, equality, fraternity, or… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
All political order presupposes a pre-political order, a sense that people belong together. And then, of course, they might seek a contract… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
The two most potent post-war orthodoxies--socialist politics and modernist art--have at least one feature in common: they are bothforms of snobbery, the… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“accountable government does not come through elections. It comes through respect for law, through public spirit and through a culture of confession.… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“In place of top-down government, Burke made the case for a society shaped from below, by traditions that have grown from our… — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
“Observing the volatile nature of the new democracies, I came vividly to see how unimportant a part of democracy are elections, in… — 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
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