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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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As you inquire into issues and turn judgments around, you come to see that every perceived problem appearing "out there" is really…
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We can hardly expect the nation-state to make itself superfluous, at least not overnight. Rather what we must aim for is really…
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A stare is really nothing more than what you're thinking inside.
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Before I studied the art, a punch to me was just like a punch, a kick just like a kick. After I…
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To see your friend's dreams come true, there's really nothing that can make you happier.
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A meringue is really nothing but a foam. And what is a foam after all, but a big collection of bubbles? And…
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There's really nothing else I'm going to do with my life. I'd be useless if I weren't singing or acting
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Dealing with people, my friends, is really nothing more than a question of the price that one is willing to pay. The…
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It may be true that my desk here is really 'nothing but' a transient eddy of electrons in the flux of universal…
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