Quotes from book
How to Be a Conservative

Name: How to Be a Conservative
Author: Roger Scruton

Roger Scruton

How to Be a Conservative is a 2014 book by the English philosopher Roger Scruton, in which the author outlines the conservative ideology, its opposition to materialism, and argues how it can be applied to crucial contemporary issues.

“Take any aspect of the Western inheritance of which our ancestors were proud, and you will find university courses devoted to deconstructing it. Take any positive feature of our political and cultural inheritance, and you will find concerted efforts in both the media and the academy to place it in quotation marks, and make it look like an imposture or a deceit.”

Roger Scruton book How to Be a Conservative

Source: How to Be a Conservative (2014), p. 40

“In discussing tradition, we are not discussing arbitrary rules and conventions. We are discussing answers that have been discovered to enduring questions.”

Roger Scruton book How to Be a Conservative

Source: How to Be a Conservative (2014), p. 21

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