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Roger Scruton
Roger Scruton
English Philosopher
Born: Feb 27, 1944
Died: Jan 12, 2020
Conservative Life Own People World You
My life divides into three parts. In the first I was wretched; in the second ill at ease; in the third hunting. Roger Scruton
Life Three My Life First Ease Hunting Wretched Divides Parts Ill Second Third
It's right to flog a dead horse sometimes, when the previous flogging has not annihilated it. Roger Scruton
Sometimes Horse Previous Dead Dead Horse Right
Although homosexuality has been normalised, it is not normal. Roger Scruton
Has-Been Although Been Normal Homosexuality
Abstract ideas like equality and liberty have a spurious transparency, and can be used to derive pleasing theorems in the manner of Jean-Jacques Rousseau or John Rawls. Roger Scruton
Equality Liberty Pleasing John Abstract Like Ideas Manner Theorems Transparency Used Derive
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
God Nature People Made Own Believe Distinct He Course His Just Then Us Many Image
Leftwing people find it very hard to get on with rightwing people, because they believe that they are evil. Whereas I have no problem getting on with leftwing people, because I simply believe that they are mistaken. Roger Scruton
People Problem Evil Believe Find No Problem Simply Mistaken Because Very Get Getting Whereas Hard
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
Silence People Conservative Made Country Though Has-Been Kind Some Voice Throughout Attempt Look Identified Been Sinister Get Then Really Europe Fascist
But the European Union does not have a concept of national identity. It was set up to abolish that idea, not to abolish German national identity because that was trying to save itself. Roger Scruton
National Abolish Idea Concept Identity Because Does Up National Identity German Itself Trying Union European European Union Set Save
I've spent my life arguing for greater respect between men and women and anyone who takes the time to read my books or listen to my lectures will realise this. Roger Scruton
Life Time Respect Women Will Men Men And Women My Life Books Spent Arguing Takes Between Read Greater Lectures Listen Anyone Realise Who
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
Saying You Legal People I Am Crime Gone Say Ensure Sexual Date Point Obscure Wrong True Between Category Know Make Am Real Difference Order Wanted Use Specific Things Violence
Great works of music speak to us from another realm even though they speak to us in ordinary physical sounds. Roger Scruton
Music Great Speak Though Physical Another Sounds Ordinary Us Realm Works Even
My little book of stories, 'Souls in the Twiligh,' may have to stand in for all the other things I have wanted to write in my retirement. Roger Scruton
Book Other Write Retirement Souls May Wanted Stories Little Stand Things
Anyone can lie. One need only have the requisite intention - in other words, to say something with the intention to deceive. Faking, by contrast, is an achievement. To fake things you have to take people in, yourself included. Roger Scruton
You Achievement Yourself Lie People Words Other Say Something Only Take Fake Faking Contrast Deceive Intention Anyone In Other Words Requisite Included Things Need
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
Life Time Good Home Mother Back Had Look Until She Cambridge Go Left Very Dying After Really By The Time
For two centuries the English countryside has been an icon of national identity and the loved reminder of our island home. Yet the government is bent on littering the hills with wind turbines and the valleys with high speed railways. Roger Scruton
Government Home Wind National Speed Our Valleys Bent Has-Been High Reminder Countryside Hills Identity Island Been National Identity Loved Icon Centuries English English Countryside Railways Two
I do ask myself why I make people so enraged, because I only ever say what I think. And while I know it might not be everyone's point of view, that doesn't seem particularly intolerable to me. Roger Scruton
Myself Me People Think Enraged Everyone I Think Say Intolerable Seem Only Point Point Of View Know Particularly Make Because While Might Ask View Why Ever
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
Freedom People World Immigration Prosperity Obviously Make Sure Around Real Motive Cure Just
My 2018 ended with a hate storm, in response to my appointment as chair of the government's Building Better, Building Beautiful Commission. Roger Scruton
Beautiful Government Hate Better Building Response Commission Ended Storm Chair Appointment
A lot of the Qur'an is, frankly, cantankerous, vitriolic, man-hating stuff. Roger Scruton
Frankly Stuff Lot
One of the questions that has most bothered me in my reflections on culture is the question of kitsch. Just what is it? When did it begin? And why? Roger Scruton
Me Culture Kitsch Bothered Most Question Questions Reflections Begin Did Just Why
Like every other viable environmental policy, the search for clean energy begins at home. Roger Scruton
Environmental Home Energy Every Other Clean Clean Energy Environmental Policy Like Policy Begins Viable Search
I think that, on the whole, risk-taking entrepreneurial characters regard nature as a sort of background that we can use for our own advantage. Roger Scruton
Nature Own Think Our I Think Background Characters Risk-Taking Entrepreneurial Advantage Sort Regard Use Whole
In the traditional dances, physical contact was permitted in a way that it wasn't in everyday life. The electricity of physical contact has gone therefore from young people's lives. Roger Scruton
Life People Everyday Life Young Gone Everyday Dances Way Physical Contact Permitted Traditional Electricity Therefore Lives
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
Nature You Too Late People Problem Will Human Nature Too Late Say About Something Advance Arises Because Around Always Were Hear Human Want Anything Turn Turn-On Then Describe Right
Conservatism is about freedom, yes. But it is also about the institutions and attitudes that shape the responsible citizen, and ensure that freedom is a benefit to us all. Conservatism is therefore also about the limits to freedom. Roger Scruton
Freedom Citizen Conservatism Benefit Ensure Responsible About Shape Attitudes Institutions Also Limits Yes Us Therefore
A reactionary is fixed on the past and wanting to return to it; a conservative wishes to adapt what is best in the past to the changing circumstances of the present. Roger Scruton
Best Conservative Past Changing Circumstances Wishes Reactionary Return Fixed Wanting In The Past Present Adapt
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