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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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He who would do good to another must do it in Minute Particulars: general Good is the plea of the scoundrel, hypocrite,…
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I have formed a very clear conception of patriotism. I have generally found it thrust into the foreground by some fellow who…
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Whether or not patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel, national security can be the last refuge of the tyrant.
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The tobacco business is a conspiracy against womanhood and manhood. It owes its origin to that scoundrel Sir Walter Raleigh, who was…
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I have no idea what the mind of a lowlife scoundrel is like, but I know what the mind of an honest…
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Whenever "A" attempts by law to impose his moral standards upon "B," "A" is most likely a scoundrel.
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The first derivative is the last refuge of a scoundrel.
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Sir, he [Bolingbroke] was a scoundrel and a coward: a scoundrel for charging a blunderbuss against religion and morality; a coward, because…
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There's no god. He who created god was a fool; he who spreads his name is a scoundrel and he who worships…
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There is no god, there is no god, there is no god at all. He who invented god is a fool. He…
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