352 Quotes by Roger Scruton

America has this wonderful ability to recover from its own mistakes, which is why it's so hugely superior to China.

If there's a local reeling party, I might go to that.

Conservatism, for me, is the philosophy and the politics of attachment.

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.

My father was a man of principle who found his principles confirmed in the unremitting failure which they brought on him.

Look at what left-wing movements were like in the 19th century - they were all about progress, the engineering of the world, the reshaping of nature, and so on. It's only postwar, really, that people on the left have come to see the environment as a critical issue.

In mathematics and science we solve our problems as well as create them. But in art and philosophy things are not so simple.

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.

America is the one place where you can talk of 'this nation' and everyone knows exactly what you think. People put a flag on their porch, and they do have a desire to localize everything and celebrate things locally.