"The art establishment has turned away from the……" — Roger Scruton
"The art establishment has turned away from the old curriculum which puts beauty and craft at the top of the agenda."
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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…
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Architecture, like dress, is an exercise in good manners, and good manners involve the habit of skillful insincerity - the…
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Sanctions make a substantial contribution to power based on privation, and they have never hurt a single despot in the…
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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…
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State solutions are imposed from above; they are often without corrective devices, and cannot easily be reversed on the proof…
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Beauty is assailed from two directions - by the cult of ugliness in the arts, and by the cult of…
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The conservative response to modernity is to embrace it, but to embrace it critically, in full consciousness that human achievements…
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The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines…
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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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