352 Quotes by Roger Scruton

"Conservatives resonate to Burke's view of society, as a partnership between the living, the unborn and the dead."

"The art establishment has turned away from the old curriculum which puts beauty and craft at the top of the agenda."

"When art becomes merely shock value, our sense of humanity is slowly degraded."

"Modern art was born from a desire to destroy kitsch."

"In the attacks on the old ways of doing things on word in particular came into currency. That word was "kitsch." Once introduced, the word stuck. Whatever you do, it musn't be kitsch. This became the first precept of the modernist artist in every medium."

"There is a sort of mystery to kitsch. When did it begin? If it is just simply another name for faking emotions, it ought to have been a permanent part of the human condition."

"Affect not to despise beauty: no one is freed from its dominion; But regard it not a pearl of price--it is fleeting as the bow in the clouds."

"In 1970s Britain, conservative philosophy was the preoccupation of a few half-mad recluses."

"The problems of philosophy and the systems designed to solve them are formulated in terms which tend to refer, not to the realm of actuality, but to the realms of possibility and necessity: to what might be and what must be, rather than to what is."

"Private property is one of the best institutions which has ever evolved, to protect us from the bullying of others."