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It is difficult for many people today to understand how you can be bound by a code of honour and sympathy to an animal that you are intending to kill; but this is exactly what was once understood by chivalry and it is perhaps a function of sport to cultivate the spirit of chivalry in those who engage in it.

— Roger Scruton

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In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.

Modern Philosophy (1995)

When truth cannot make itself known in words, it will make itself known in deeds.

The core of common culture is religion. Tribes survive and flourish because they have gods, who fuse many wills into a single will, and demand and reward the sacrifices on which social life depends.

Modern Culture (2000)

The future of mankind, for the socialist, is simple: pull down the existing order and allow the future to emerge.

A Political Philosophy (2006)

Conservatism is itself a modernism, and in this lies the secret of its success.

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