Roger Scruton

“modern economies have developed ways of avoiding costs or passing them on that effectively remove the sanctions from dishonest or manipulative behaviour.…

— Roger Scruton

We live in an extremely anxious age in which the core of our beliefs has been undermined to a great extent by…

— Roger Scruton

“There is, in the circumstances of modern life, only one solution to the problem of resentment, and that is social mobility. The…

— Roger Scruton

“The goal, Karel said, was not to tell explicit lies but to destroy the distinction between the true and the false, so…

— Roger Scruton

“John O’Sullivan has forcefully argued that the simultaneous presence in the highest offices of Reagan, Thatcher and Pope John Paul II was…

— Roger Scruton

Styles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent.

— Roger Scruton

“I saw that this desire to control society in the name of equality expresses exactly the contempt for human freedom that I…

— Roger Scruton

“Although the border between Canada and the United States is disputed, and has been disputed for a century or more, the chances…

— Roger Scruton

“We have to take our neighbours seriously, as people with an equal claim to protection, for whom we might be required, in…

— Roger Scruton

“Decisions are free when each of us settles his path through life by negotiation, playing his cards according to his own best…

— Roger Scruton

Conservative voters tend to believe that the 'climate change' agenda has been foisted upon us by an unaccountable lobby of politicised intellectuals.

— Roger Scruton

“Why do the defenders of the market not raise their voices against the practice of externalizing costs in that way? After”

— Roger Scruton

Nothing upset me more than the award of Companion of Honour to Eric Hobsbawm in reward for a lifetime of unswerving loyalty…

— Roger Scruton

“The first is that the conservative cause has been polluted by the ideology of big business, by the global ambitions of the…

— Roger Scruton

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

— Roger Scruton

It's right to flog a dead horse sometimes, when the previous flogging has not annihilated it.

— Roger Scruton

“Nonsemes and mathemes stand next to each other in detached and mutually irrelevant jumbles. They lack the crucial valency that ties sentence…

— Roger Scruton

Marriage does not exist for the benefit of the present generation but for the benefit of the next

— Roger Scruton

“Our national jurisdictions are now bombarded by laws from outside, even though hardly any of these laws are concerned with the avoidance…

— Roger Scruton

Modernist buildings exclude dialogue, and the void that they create around themselves is not a public space but a desertification

— Roger Scruton

What makes us human is that we ask questions. All the animals have interests, instincts and conceptions. All the animals frame for…

— Roger Scruton

Like every other viable environmental policy, the search for clean energy begins at home.

— Roger Scruton

“In discussing tradition, we are not discussing arbitrary rules and conventions. We are discussing answers that have been discovered to enduring questions.…

— Roger Scruton

Sometimes the intention is to shock us. But what is shocking first time around is boring and vacuous when repeated.

— Roger Scruton

“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