Conservative Quote by Roger Scruton

“The conservative is the one who understands his own society from within and loves and defends it.”

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

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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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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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