My life divides into three parts. In the first I was wretched; in the second ill at ease; in the third hunting. Roger Scruton Read Quote
The rude, raw, ‘let it all hang out’ freedom of the Californian hippies was in fact the most censorious and oppressive of societies that I have encountered. Roger Scruton Read Quote
The conservative is the one who understands his own society from within and loves and defends it. Roger Scruton Read Quote
One must recognise what all religious people know, which is that human beings are imperfect and fallen and there’s no way in which they alone can surmount the problems which they create. Roger Scruton Read Quote
If you say something in advance – if you describe a problem as it arises, people always turn on you because they don’t want to hear about it. But when it’s too late to do anything, they will then turn around and say that you were right. That’s human nature. Roger Scruton Read Quote
When I say there is no such crime as date rape I am saying what is true. There isn’t a specific legal category of date rape and I wanted to make that point in order to ensure that people don’t use this to obscure the difference between real sexual violence and, you know, things that have gone wrong. Roger Scruton Read Quote
I am a conservative thinker, well known as such, outspoken as such but reasonable in my view. Roger Scruton Read Quote
There has been throughout this country and throughout Europe really an attempt silence the conservative voice. We get identified, caricatured and then demonised and made to look as though we are some kind of sinister, fascist, racist kind of people. Roger Scruton Read Quote
