Biography

Roger Scruton was born on February 27, 1944 in Buslingthorpe, Lincolnshire, England, UK. He was a writer and producer, known for Why Beauty Matters (2009), Think of England (1991) and Dark Addiction (2024). He died on January 12, 2020 in Brinkworth, Wiltshire, England, UK.

[on the US election result, 2016] Seldom if ever has a head of state been voted into office with his reputation so much in shreds, and his character so thoroughly despised, not merely at home, but also around the world. Trump has power now, but little or no authority.

There are broadly two motives for embracing an intellectual movement: one is the love of truth, the other the need for membership. Religions pretend to address the first of those motives, while in fact recruiting the second.

Beauty is vanishing from our world because we live as though it did not matter.

A lot of the Qur'an is, frankly, cantankerous, vitriolic, man-hating stuff.

[on Margaret Thatcher] I was identified in the intellectual world with this terrible woman – who I never knew, although I do now – and was blamed for everything she did, without me knowing what she would do.