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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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Posterity! You will never know how much it cost the present generation to preserve your freedom! I hope you will make a…
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Some think that even the ancients who lived long before the present generation, and first framed accounts of the Gods, had a…
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The best practical advice I can give to the present generation is to practice the virtue which the Christians call love.
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The Righteous Salaf were as fearful of their good deeds being squandered, or not being accepted, as the present generation is certain…
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Is the minor convenience of allowing the present generation the luxury of doubling its energy consumption every 10 years worth the major…
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Next Monday the Convention in Virginia will assemble; we have still good hopes of its adoption here: though by no great plurality…
— George Washington
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Even in a crowded field, it is a rare pleasure to come across a prose stylist like Kellie Wells, whose intellect and…
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We must follow the wisdom of the Brundtland Report. We must pursue development that meets the needs of the present generation without…
— Ban Ki-moon
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The mental disease of the present generation is impatience of study, contempt of the great masters of ancient wisdom, and a disposition…
— Samuel Johnson
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No other generation but ours can evangelize the present generation.
— John Mott
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Hardship is vanishing, but so is style, and the two are more closely connected than the present generation supposes.
— E. M. Forster
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Marriage does not exist for the benefit of the present generation but for the benefit of the next
— Roger Scruton
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