Roger Scruton Quotes

If you want to assemble the same people, then you have a big problem.

I love to ask people questions. I want to know everything about them, even things that may be seemingly socially inappropriate.

Curtis Le May wants to bomb Hanoi and Haiphong. You know how he likes to go around bombing.

Trump wants a team of fighters. He wants a team of people that understand what they're up against and who's out to get them, to stop them, to destroy them, to impede them or what have you.

Don't you wish we could pick the people we love?" "Yeah," I say. "Or just make the people we love want the same things we want.

The first person who throws the rock is a lot more radical than a hundredth person.By the time the riot has attracted a hundred people, you don't have to be nearly as much of a daredevil or a hothead or committed or any of those things to want to engage in a riot.

I want to be alone and I want people to notice me — both at the same time.

When people don't want 'em, when they profit from the division, however, be it politically or financially, that's when I abhor it.

People always want to protect what's really going on inside. They want to kind of make visible something that looks more pleasant than what may be happening inside of themselves.

You can do something that walks a line, and invariably, whatever that line is, it will be crossed by people who don't know any better and want to ape the success.

People need an enemy to feel a sense of purpose.

I've come to feel very strongly, not as a joke, that if you appoint a committee of more than four people, their efficiency starts to deteriorate.

Crowds are somewhat like the sphinx of ancient fable: It is necessary to arrive at a solution of the problems offered by their psychology or to resign ourselves to being devoured by them.

Three people marooned on a desert island would soon reinvent politics.

I want taxes to be less, that the people may have more.

Our actions - and inaction - touch people every day, people we may never know and never meet.

People want the truth, even if they disagree.

If people with the very best intentions carry on prosecutions that are oppressive, the end may not always perhaps sanctify the means.

Before 1999, Tracey Emin and Sarah Lucas offered to get me exhibitions, but joining the Stuckists put a kaibosh on all that - because I wasn't prepared to be controlled. I agreed to co-found the Stuckists to be allowed to say what I wanted, and I left the Stuckists because I didn't really want to be in them in the first place.

You will find that hate can unify people more quickly and more fervently than devotion ever could.

Of course I want to be good, but that may not be to your advantage.

Do you remember all of your audiences?" Marco asks. "Not all of them," Celia says. "But I remember the people who look at me the way you do." "What way might that be?" "As though they cannot decide if they are afraid of me or they want to kiss me." " I am not afraid of you," Marco says.

If you have to talk to more than three people about the same problem, you don't want help, you want attention.

In America, every time we take rebels, whether it's in Iraq or anywhere else, we're arming people. And you know what happens? They end up being worse than the people.