Roger Scruton citáty

„V argumentu o morálních problémem je relativismus prvním útočištěm darebáka.“

—  Roger Scruton

„Byl sluhou starého režimu… vždy podněcoval nenávist vůči Spojeným státům a Západu.“

—  Roger Scruton

o Jiřím Dienstbierovi jako zahraničněpolitickém redaktorovi

Source: [KDO BYL KDO v našich dějinách ve 20. století, http://libri.cz/databaze/kdo20/list.php?od=d&start=1&count=20, 2016-07-27, Libri]

„Podstata konzervativismu zůstává nevyslovená a jeho vnější projevy, když už to musí být, jsou skeptické.“

—  Roger Scruton

Zdroj: Časopis Reflex, 16. ledna, 2020 , str. 14

„Jak mám vysvětlit (svým mladým americkým studentům), že byly doby, kdy knihy byly stejně důležité jako život. Bylo zločinem je vlastnit a ještě větším je rozšiřovat, ale my na ně pohlíželi jako na posvátné. Jak vysvětlit, že věta vybraná ze světa smrtelných událostí a definitivně zformovaná na stránce je s to proniknout srdcem jako šíp a může být stejně významná jako záblesk lásky či manželský slib.“

—  Roger Scruton

Zdroj: Časopis Reflex, 16. ledna, 2020 , str. 14

„Kant's position is extremely subtle — so subtle, indeed, that no commentator seems to agree with any other as to what it is.“

—  Roger Scruton

"Some More -isms" (p. 25)
Modern Philosophy (1995)

„The real reason people are conservatives is that they are attached to the things that they love, and want to preserve them from abuse and decay. They are attached to their family, their friends, their religion, and their immediate environment. They have made a lifelong distinction between the things that nourish and the things that threaten their security and peace of mind.“

—  Roger Scruton

"Conservatism and the Conservatory," https://www.nationalreview.com/nrd/articles/427945/conservatism-and-conservatory, National Review (December 2015).

„The consolation of imaginary things is not imaginary consolation.“

—  Roger Scruton

„A writer who says that there are no truths, or that all truth is 'merely relative,' is asking you not to believe him. So don't.“

—  Roger Scruton

"The Nature of Philosophy" (p. 6)
Modern Philosophy (1995)
Zdroj: Modern Philosophy: An Introduction and Survey

„It is not enough to be nice; you have to be good. We are attracted by nice people; but only on the assumption that their niceness is a sign of goodness.“

—  Roger Scruton

„The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world.“

—  Roger Scruton

"What is Culture?" (p. 2)
Culture Counts (2007)

„National loyalty involves a love of home and a preparedness to defend it; nationalism is a belligerent ideology, which uses national symbols in order to conscript the people to war.“

—  Roger Scruton

England and the Need for Nations (2006)

„[T]o teach virtue we must educate the emotions, and this means learning "what to feel" in the various circumstances that prompt them.“

—  Roger Scruton

"Knowledge and Feeling" (p. 37)
Culture Counts (2007)

„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.“

—  Roger Scruton

"What is Culture?" (p. 2)
Culture Counts (2007)

„Conservatives have, on the whole, accepted nationality as a sphere of local duties and loyalties, defining an inheritance and a community that has a right to pass on its values from generation to generation. The nation may indeed be the best that we now have, by way of a society linking the dead to the unborn, in the manner extolled by Burke. And for this very reason it arouses the hostility of liberals, who are constantly searching for a place outside loyalty and obedience, from which all human claims can be judged. Hence, in the conflicts of our times, while conservatives leap to the defense of the nation and its interests, wishing to maintain its integrity and to enforce its law, liberals advocate transnational initiatives, international courts, and doctrines of universal rights, all of which, they believe, should stand in judgment over the nation and hold it to account.“

—  Roger Scruton

"The Limits of Liberty," http://spectator.org/42528_back-basics/ The American Spectator (December 2008).

„The core of common culture is religion. Tribes survive and flourish because they have gods, who fuse many wills into a single will, and demand and reward the sacrifices on which social life depends.“

—  Roger Scruton

"Culture and Cult" (p. 5)
Modern Culture (2000)

„Liberty is not the same thing as equality, and that those who call themselves liberals are far more interested in equalizing than in liberating their fellows.“

—  Roger Scruton

"The Limits of Liberty," http://spectator.org/42528_back-basics/ The American Spectator (December 2008).

„The future of mankind, for the socialist, is simple: pull down the existing order and allow the future to emerge.“

—  Roger Scruton

"Eliot and Conservatism" (p. 208)
A Political Philosophy (2006)

„Nationality is not the only kind of social membership, nor is it an exclusive tie. However, it is the only form of membership that has so far shown itself able to sustain a democratic process and a liberal rule of law.“

—  Roger Scruton

England and the Need for Nations (2006)

„[Burke] emphasized that the new forms of politics, which hope to organize society around the rational pursuit of liberty, equality, fraternity, or their modernist equivalents, are actually forms of militant irrationality.“

—  Roger Scruton

"Why I became a conservative," http://newcriterion.com:81/archive/21/feb03/burke.htm The New Criterion (February 2003).