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Roger Scruton has 47 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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States are more like people than they are like anything else: they exist by purpose, reason, suffering, and joy. And peace between…
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Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity - the habit of…
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Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the whole history…
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There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer these questions…
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State solutions are imposed from above; they are often without corrective devices, and cannot easily be reversed on the proof of failure.…
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Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of utility in…
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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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The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision…
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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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In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.
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Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter.
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Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others.
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Gold gives an appearance of beauty even to ugliness: but with poverty everything becomes frightful.
— Nicolas Boileau-Despreaux
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The quiet that envelops space makes the beauty even more powerful, and I only hope that the quiet can one day spread…
— Ilan Ramon
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I must admit that I am not a member of the ugly school. I have a great regard for certain notions of…
— Saul Leiter
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I can choose to grateful when I am criticized, even when my heart still responds in bitterness. I can choose to speak…
— Henri Nouwen
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Amid the worry of a self- condemnatory soliloquy, his demeanour seemed grave, perhaps cold, both to me and his mother. And yet…
— Charlotte Bronte
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The soul is that which beholds beauty even when the mind denies it.
— Neale Donald Walsch
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Art has the ability to redeem life by finding beauty even in the worst aspect of things.
— Roger Scruton
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Without realizing it, the individual composes his life according to the laws of beauty even in times of greatest distress.
— Milan Kundera
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Whatever it is that pulls the pin, that hurls you past the boundaries of your own life into a brief and total…
— Jeanette Winterson
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There is nothing unnatural in this world," he said. "An unnatural thing is a thing that could never happen in nature. I…
— Kristin Cashore
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If everyone were not so indolent they would realise that beauty is beauty even when it is irritating and stimulating not only…
— Gertrude Stein
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The real sin against life is to abuse and destroy beauty, even one's own even more, one's own, for that has been…
— Katherine Anne Porter
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