Roger Scruton best Equality Quotes – “Abstract ideas like equality and liberty have a spurious transparency, and can be used to derive pleasing theorems in the manner of Jean-Jacques Rousseau or John Rawls.”
Roger Scruton best Environmental Quotes – “Environmental degradation has one cause above all others: the propensity of human beings to take the benefit and leave the costs to someone else, preferably someone far away in space or time, whose protests can be safely ignored.”
Roger Scruton best Environmental Quotes – “Like every other viable environmental policy, the search for clean energy begins at home.”
Roger Scruton best Environmental Quotes – “My main argument is that environmental destruction comes when people externalise their costs and pass them on to future generations. That is obviously something that large enterprises do and they become large by doing it.”
Roger Scruton best Death Quotes – “Coming close to death you begin to know what life means, and what it means is gratitude.”
Roger Scruton best Christmas Quotes – “Whether it is a garden gnome, the sound of Bing Crosby launching into ‘White Christmas’, the blinking innocent eyes of Bambi or the words of Patience Strong, the kitsch phenomenon is there as strong and recognisable as your mother’s face. You seldom if ever have the question, whether this is kitsch or not. If you think it might be, then it is.”