"When gifts are replaced by rights, so is……" — Roger Scruton
"When gifts are replaced by rights, so is gratitude replaced by claims. And claims breed resentment"
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47 Quotes by Roger Scruton
Roger Scruton has 47 quotes on this site.
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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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More Breed Quotes
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Lies are sufficient to breed opinion, and opinion brings on substance.
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There is a breed of fashion models who weigh no more than an abridged dictionary.
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I've always thought if we don't want to enforce laws on the books, we should remove them from the books.…
— Michael Bloomberg
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Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
— Emily Bronte
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There is the odd exception, like Albert Einstein, but as a breed, scientists tend not be very good at presenting…
— Bill Bryson
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What, then, is this new man, the American? They are a mixture of English, Scotch, Irish, French, Dutch, Germans, and…
— J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur
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Ungrateful people breed negativity. No one gets any pleasure from giving to an ungrateful person. When you show appreciation, the…
— Paul McCabe
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One of the most fashionable notions of our times is that social problems like poverty and oppression breed wars. Most…
— Thomas Sowell
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I know of no pursuit in which more real and important services can be rendered to any country than by…
— George Washington
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Freedom is a condition of mind, and the best way to secure it is to breed it.
— Elbert Hubbard
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Old breed? New breed? There's not a damn bit of difference so long as it's the Marine breed.
— Chesty Puller
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Each man must not think only of himself, but also of his buddy fighting beside him. We don't want yellow…
— George S. Patton
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