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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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Erosion, desertification, and pollution have become our lot. It is a weird form of suicide, for we are bleeding our planet to…
— Gerald Durrell
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It seems that the whole world is beginning to decay, and that its putrefaction has chosen to spread outward from here, from…
— Yasmina Khadra
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The foes now are universal - poverty, famine, religious radicalization, desertification, drugs, proliferation of nuclear weapons, ecological devastation. They threaten all nations,…
— Shimon Peres
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We human beings are not only the beneficiaries but also the stewards of other creatures. Thanks to our bodies, God has joined…
— Pope Francis
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Nowhere is this challenge more critical -- and the need for action more pressing -- than in the Horn of Africa. From…
— Rajiv Shah
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Modernist buildings exclude dialogue, and the void that they create around themselves is not a public space but a desertification
— Roger Scruton
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Beyond the borders of wealthy countries like the United States, in developing countries where most people in the world live, the impacts…
— Amy Goodman
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It is said that the American vocabulary has declined by half in the past few decades. It's a tragic instance of desertification…
— Stephanie Mills
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We already have the statistics for the future: the growth percentages of pollution, overpopulation, desertification. The future is already in place.
— Gunter Grass
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