Roger Scruton Quotes on Politics
Roger Scruton was a British philosopher, public intellectual, and the foremost philosophical exponent of conservative thought in the late twentieth and early twenty-first centuries. This page collects quotes attributed to Roger Scruton on the topic of politics, drawn from across the philosopher's works.
Quotes
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Attributed to Roger Scruton:
“Conservatism is the philosophy of attachment.”
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Attributed to Roger Scruton:
“The most important things in life are inherited, not chosen.”
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“Culture is the way a society confronts the eternal questions: who we are, where we come from, and what we owe each other.”
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. -
“It goes without saying that apartheid is offensive. It was adopted, however, as the lesser of two evils. The Afrikaners believe that black majority rule has, in almost every case, led to the collapse of the constitutional government which they brought to South Africa , and upon which their freedoms and privileges – and perhaps even their lives – depend. And it did not seem so very bad to deny to blacks a vote which they would, when in power, promptly deny to themselves.”
A lift at last for the other Afrikaners', The Times (17 May 1983), p. 12