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Here are some quotes by Roger Scruton:
”A society that is no longer governed by religious belief will always be governed by secular faith – faith in the state.”
”To be conservative … is to prefer the familiar to the unknown, to prefer the tried to the untried, fact to mystery, the actual to the possible, the limited to the unbounded, the near to the distant, the sufficient to the superabundant, the convenient to the perfect, present laughter to utopian bliss.”
”Music, architecture, the rituals of the Church, the layout of cities, the forms and protocols of daily life, are all ways in which man expresses his longing for order, his nostalgia for the world from which he has been exiled.”
”The nation-state is the political realization of our urge to live in freedom and peace, in accordance with laws and traditions that we ourselves have consented to.”
”The capacity to hate, like the capacity to love, is part of what it means to be a person, but in politics the hate we bear is a form of unearned love.”
”Our towns, villages, and hamlets, in which we find our homes, our offices, and our places of leisure, are not just points on a map, but intricate webs of human relations.”
”History is a story of displacement, of the loss and rediscovery of home, of being exiled and returning, of the restless search for the city at the end of the road.”
”We are who we are through our experience of home.”
These quotes reflect Scruton’s philosophical and political views, focusing on themes such as conservatism, society, culture, and the human condition.