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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 to the gods, I have no means of knowing either that they exist or do not exist.
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When I so pressingly urge a strict observance of all the laws, let me not be understood as saying there are no…
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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…
— Roger Scruton
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I cannot agree with those who think of the Bill of Rights as an 18th century straitjacket, unsuited for this age...The evils…
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Everybody is born with the capacity to enjoy, but not with the art. People think just because they are alive and they…
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This counter-terrorism campaign will be waged through a steady, relentless effort to take out Isil wherever they exist, using our air power…
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Even if not a single picture is never published, they exist. And that means that we are recording the history of the…
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I can assure you that flying saucers, given that they exist, are not constructed by any power on Earth.
— Harry S. Truman
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