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Quotes from How to Be a Conservative — Roger Scruton

1944–2020 England

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Traditions are answers that have been discovered to enduring questions.

How to Be a Conservative (2014)

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

How to Be a Conservative (2014)

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.

How to Be a Conservative (2014)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Roger Scruton (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.