Marriage does not exist for the benefit of the present generation but for the benefit of the next
Roger ScrutonWhen many people individually get what they want, the result may be something they collectively dislike.
Roger ScrutonScience proposes something and then does everything it can to disprove it. Religion is not like that. It proposes something and does everything it can to keep it from being disproved.
Roger ScrutonStyles may change, details may come and go, but the broad demands of aesthetic judgement are permanent.
Roger ScrutonThere are no chords in modernist architecture, only lines - lines that may come to an end, but that achieve no closure
Roger ScrutonThe welfare state that is built upon this conception seems to prove precisely away from the conservative conception of authoritative and personal government, towards a labyrinthine privilege sodden structure of anonymous power, structuring a citizenship that is increasingly reluctant to answer for itself, increasingly parasitic on the dispensations of a bureaucracy towards which it can feel no gratitude.
Roger Scruton