352 Quotes by Roger Scruton

In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.

A philosophy that begins in doubt assails what no-one believes, and invites us to nothing believable

Conservatism is itself a modernism, and in this lies the secret of its success.

The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation.

A civilization is a social entity that manifests religious, political , legal, and customary uniformity over an extended period, and which confers on its members the benefits of socially accumulated knowledge.

If you consider only utility, the things you build will soon be useless... nobody wants to be in it.

Unlike every other product that is now manufactured for the table, wine exists in as many varieties as there are people who produce it. Variations in technique, climate, grape, soil and culture ensure that wine is, to the ordinary drinker, the most unpredictable of drinks, and to the connoisseur the most intricately informative, responding to its origins like a game of chess to its opening move.

Nothing is more useful than the useless.

Something of the child's pure delight in creation survives in every true work of art.