What makes a politician accountable is not that there are millions of people who vote, but that there are procedures of government that force him to account for himself. Roger Scruton Read Quote
Lives are destroyed by many things. They are destroyed by anti-racism too, as Ray Honeyford’s was. Roger Scruton Read Quote
I’m a hate figure for a certain kind of half-educated politically correct person. Roger Scruton Read Quote
To live with someone who likes you, and whose judgement you respect, because you love them, does make quite a difference, I find. Roger Scruton Read Quote
On the whole, I rather disapprove of cookbooks, except for the literary ones, like Elizabeth David’s. Roger Scruton Read Quote
Delia Smith is, actually, my bete noire. I consider her a most pernicious influence. Roger Scruton Read Quote
Of course, it is the case that conservatism as I envisage it distances itself always from abstract conceptions and tries to find the concrete reality. Roger Scruton Read Quote
There are big questions science doesn’t answer, such as why is there something rather than nothing? There can’t be a scientific answer to that because it’s the answer that precedes science. Roger Scruton Read Quote
