Politics Quote by Roger Scruton

““Gradually this truth is beginning to dawn on the political class, so that even socialists have come to accept that the poor are not helped by taking revenge against the rich, but by opening the doors to social advancement. Since””

Roger Scruton

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Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it does not matter.

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“So conceived, the English police force served to emphasize a fundamental truth about the English law, which is that it exists not to control…

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My 2018 ended with a hate storm, in response to my appointment as chair of the government's Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission.

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I've never been an optimist, but that's fine because pessimists have the possibility of being agreeably surprised.

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Unlike every other product that is now manufactured for the table, wine exists in as many varieties as there are people who produce it.…

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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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“I think we can all see the force of the idea that there are certain things that cannot be done to human beings –…

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When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded.

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“Western democracies did not create the virtue of citizenship; on the contrary, they grew from it. Nothing is more evident in The Federalist than…

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“If one looks back to the French Revolution, one sees just how easy it is for the doctrine of “human rights” to become an…

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“I say it was immediately apparent, but it was not apparent to the intellectual class, which has remained largely wedded to the post-war consensus…

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Conservatives hold on to things not only because they are attached to them, but also because they do not see the sense in radical…

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