"Art has the ability to redeem life by……" — Roger Scruton

"Art has the ability to redeem life by finding beauty even in the worst aspect of things."

47 Quotes by Roger Scruton

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States are more like people than they are like anything else: they exist by purpose, reason, suffering, and joy. And…
Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity - the…
Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the…
There’s a real question as to what beauty is and why it’s important to us. Many pseudo-philosophers try to answer…
State solutions are imposed from above; they are often without corrective devices, and cannot easily be reversed on the proof…
Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of…
The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements…
The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines…
The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.
In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.
Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter.
Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others.

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