Buildings like Penn Station attract our protective instincts not only because of their beauty but because we fear what will come to replace them. Roger Scruton Read Quote
The sanctity of private property is so fundamental a part of the American settlement that the country’s conservatives look with suspicion on any policy that seems to prevent people from doing what they will with what is theirs. Roger Scruton Read Quote
The main aim of conservative politicians is to get through to the next election without being noticed. Nothing is more embarrassing to them than a person who claims not only to share their beliefs but also to be inclined to put them into practice. Roger Scruton Read Quote
If, as many people believe, there is a God, and that God made us in his own image, then of course we are distinct from nature, just as He is. Roger Scruton Read Quote
The traditional family has an intrinsic as well as an instrumental value, and that is the real reason so many conservatives defend it. Roger Scruton Read Quote
Great works of music speak to us from another realm even though they speak to us in ordinary physical sounds. Roger Scruton Read Quote
We live in an extremely anxious age in which the core of our beliefs has been undermined to a great extent by scientific thinking. Roger Scruton Read Quote
The real cure to immigration, obviously, is to make sure that there is prosperity around the world so that people don’t have the motive. Not just prosperity, but freedom. Roger Scruton Read Quote
Life at home wasn’t very good and I had really left by the time I was 16 and didn’t go back until after Cambridge when I went to look after my mother when she was dying. Roger Scruton Read Quote
My main argument is that environmental destruction comes when people externalise their costs and pass them on to future generations. That is obviously something that large enterprises do and they become large by doing it. Roger Scruton Read Quote
