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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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Inflexibility is the worst human failing. You can learn to check impetuosity, overcome fear with confidence and laziness with discipline. But for…
— Anton Myrer
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All corporatism – even when practised in societies where hard work, enterprise and cooperation are as highly valued as in Korea –…
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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.…
— Roger Scruton
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No method of procedure has ever been devised by which liberty could be divorced from local self-government. No plan of centralization has…
— Calvin Coolidge
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Great works of art have no more affecting lesson for us than this. They teach us to abide by our own spontaneous…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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He was one of those men who, even in the years of peace, would have advised his congregation that while God may…
— Thomas Keneally
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Everyone with all those good intentions came to help Indonesia rebuild from the tsunami; but the co-ordination problem was very big, because…
— Sri Mulyani Indrawati
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A breakdown in this capacityto praise and respect others can lead to inflexibility and self-righteousness.
— Senoraroy
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Dont be victimized by negative emotions and thinking. Dont be handicapped by stubbornness and inflexibility
— Varsha Sharma
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