Roger Scruton Quotes

So let us replace the word with a true description. People in our societies own things, their labour...

If you ask a conservative for a statement of his political convictions, he may well say that he has ...

The two goals of liberation and social justice are not obviously compatible, any more than were the ...

... it is not the taste considered in itself, that we hold to our lips, and you can no more understa...

If he had stayed in Slovenia, and Slovenia had stayed Communist, Zizek would not have been the nuisa...

... while we are familiar with the adverse effect of drink on an empty stomach, we are now witnessin...

Then there are the fully intentional pleasures, which, although in some way tied up with sensory or ...

Civilization is always threatened from below, by patterns of belief and emotion that may once have b...

Nonsense has taken up residence in the heart of public debate and also in the academy. This nonsense...

Ideological opinion is not merely distinct from knowledge but the enemy of knowledge.

We should not value education as a means to prosperity but prosperity as a means to education. Only...

A society no more exists for the satisfaction of human needs, than a plant exists for its own health...

The heretic is the one who speaks against the community from a place within its territory. He is the...