Roger Scruton Quotes

People in this country don't realize how tyrannical the Left is. It is phenomenally intolerant of any views other than its own, and it must label them as bad, evil, malodorous in some way.

To single out a particular group and say we can't make a joke about them is almost a form of prejudice and it's kind of patronizing.

Heretics are no longer burned at the stake. But they are marginalized by cultural and educational institutions.

These Jews seem to think of nothing but making money and sexual indulgence …. Ninety-Five percent of these folks are Jews of Eastern European lineage. They are probably the scum of the earth.

If you think about it, there's not a religious group, there's not a nationalistic group, there's not a tribe, there is no grouping of people to my knowledge, of any consequence, who have not, at one or another time, been the object of hatred, racism, or who has not had people against them just because they were them.

When you have demonization of a group of people, it's easy to clump them all together and not understand them.

Google that, 'old white men,' and you'll find that comes out of the mouths of liberals in a daily basis across the country. They're disparaging a group of people, and it's time somebody stood up for that group of people.

I save all my good e-mails. Listen to this one: 'You liberals should be deported.'

The proliferation of bans fuels stereotypes and discriminates against a community.

Have you ever been called an Islamist? How about a jihadist or a terrorist? Extremist, maybe? Welcome to my world. It's pretty depressing.

Demonization of people on the basis of race, religion, sexual orientation, or other criteria leads to dehumanization. The notion that some are 'other' is a dangerous and slippery slope.

They've said everything about me that they could: racist, Marxist, rightist, homophobic, sex change - I don't know what else they could come up with.

Liberals love to screech about 'free speech,' but it's pretty clear to most of us that they don't really tolerate any speech but theirs.

Going into a room and saying, 'I'm a black lesbian' - it's a strike against you.

Labels are actually not to make us understand things better: they are actually to ostracise and discriminate that what does not belong to the majority.

Indeed, throughout much of history and in many cultures, redheads have been viewed with suspicion and fear - and even killed - because of their hair.

My feeling is that the English are naturally anti-Semitic.

I think that Muslims are criticised all around the world.

Most Americans do really think that Muslims all want to take over and they don't want democracy and they want nothing but Islamic law.

Generally, I feel I'm cast aside because of the kind of movies that I make.

There's no religion in this country that is more misunderstood, mis-categorized, and misidentified than Islam.

We have such a culture of discrimination and hatred, and one that has scapegoats and affects people so extremely. That's something that very easily crosses borders.

People were so cruel because of the way I existed.

The thing with mutants is, they've always stood in for the disenfranchised and downtrodden. And no matter how hard they fight, how hard they work to live among humans, the humans always push back with new laws and new ways of hurting mutants.

Being an openly gay black man, unfortunately I've had experiences working with individuals who've tried to exploit my blackness or my gayness in a way that doesn't make me feel comfortable, or they try to manipulate me into being a caricature of myself.