A high culture is the self-consciousness of a society. It contains the works of art, literature, scholarship and philosophy that establish a shared frame of reference among educated people.

Roger Scruton

For Conservatives, all disputes over law, liberty and justice are addressed to a historic and existing community. The root of politics, they believe, is attachment - the motive in human beings that binds them to the place, the customs, the history and the people who are theirs.

Roger Scruton

Coming close to death you begin to know what life means, and what it means is gratitude.

Roger Scruton

Wonder and awe are the diet of the artist and without them the world would be far less meaningful to us than it is.

Roger Scruton

To live with someone who likes you, and whose judgement you respect, because you love them, does make quite a difference, I find.

Roger Scruton