Quotes by : Roger Scruton

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

If you ask a conservative for a statement of his political convictions, he may well say that he has none,....