The abstract, unreal freedom of the liberal intellect was really nothing more than childish disobedience, amplified into anarchy.
Roger ScrutonStyles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent.
Roger ScrutonFantasy consists in a morbid fascination with unrealities, which secretly transforms itself into a desire to make them real. Imagination is a form of intellectual control, which presents us with the image of unrealities in order that we should understand and feel distanced from them. In imagination we dominate; in fantasy, we are dominated.
Roger ScrutonMarriage does not exist for the benefit of the present generation but for the benefit of the next
Roger Scruton