'A market can deliver a rational allocation of goods and services only where there is trust between its participants, and trust exists only where people take responsibility for their actions and make themselves accountable to those with whom they deal' How To Be a Conservative

'The Revolution placed its gods on earth, and described them in 'the language of man': liberty, equality, fraternity' Man's Second Disobedience

'I saw that this desire to control society in the name of equality expresses exactly the contempt for human freedom that I encountered in Eastern Europe. There is indeed such a thing as society; but it is composed of individuals. And individuals must be free'

'The dwindling of stigma inevitably means that the task of social control is bequeathed to the state. The state has therefore become the guardian of social order. But this has happened at the very moment when the state sees no remedy for social ills besides 'compassion''

'The generation of the 1960s was not disposed to ask the fundamental question how social justice and liberation could be reconciled. It wished only for the theories, however opaque and unintelligible, that would authorize its opposition to the existing order'

'Aesthetic interest does not stem from our passing desires: it reveals what we are and what we value. Taste, like style, is the man himself' Modern Culture

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'Very little is revealed to us in such a way that its significance can be fully understood. In art, however, we create a realm of the imagination, in which each beginning finds its end, and each fragment is part of a meaningful whole' Confessions of a Heretic

'It is possible, through the complicitous web of feeling that a culture keeps in place, to look on the human spirit as a thing redeemed' Modern Culture

Scruton on art and religion:
'Yet art, properly understood, is a kind of prayer: it is an attempt to call the timeless and the transcendental to the scene of some human incident.'

'Freedom that can be enjoyed by one generation only by condemning the next to dependency surely deserves the name of license' The Limits of Liberty

'The English did not believe that the mere fact of possessing power entitled a person to exert it. Confronted with power they would question its authority, and would resist it to the utmost if they thought that it had none' England: An Elegy

'I suspect that she [Thatcher] did not see clearly enough that the European process, as constituted by the Treaties, authorizes the unresisted conquest of our country and the confiscation of our national assets' The Meaning of Margaret Thatcher

'The English aristocrat was not a courtier, kowtowing to his sovereign in the city, but the heart and soul of the landscape where he resided, bearing a title that ennobled the country as much as it ennobled himself' England: An Elegy

'Marriage does not exist for the benefit of the present generation but for the benefit of the next. It is a rite of passage in which two people set out on a path whose meaning lies not in their present emotions but in their future family' Made In Heaven

'The greatest enemy of the Left is reality'

'Taste and judgment are faculties that we develop: they form part of the great transition from youthful enjoyment to adult discrimination. To teach them is to offer a rite of passage into the adult way of life' Farewell to Judgment

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Maurice Cowling, a Peterhouse historian, had a great impact on Scruton. He was, however, quite critical of Scruton's efforts to try to work out a philosophy of political conservatism. Cowling described Scruton's Right with rather cynical remarks.