Roger Scruton Quotes About Culture

Quotes about: Culture

• The culture of a civilization is the art and literature through which it rises to consciousness of itself and defines its vision of the world.

  Roger Scruton

  Art, Civilization, Vision

  Roger Scruton (2007). “Culture Counts: Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged”

• Unlike every other product that is now manufactured for the table, wine exists in as many varieties as there are people who produce it. Variations in technique, climate, grape, soil and culture ensure that wine is, to the ordinary drinker, the most unpredictable of drinks, and to the connoisseur the most intricately informative, responding to its origins like a game of chess to its opening move.

  Roger Scruton

  Moving, Wine, Games

  Roger Scruton (2013). “I Drink Therefore I Am: A Philosopher's Guide to Wine”, p.22, Bloomsbury Publishing

• In place of the old beliefs of a civilization based on godliness, judgment and historical loyalty, young people are given the new beliefs of a society based on equality and inclusion, and are told that the judgment of other lifestyles is a crime. ... The "non-judgmental" attitude towards other cultures goes hand-in-hand with a fierce denunciation of the culture that might have been one's own

  Roger Scruton

  Loyalty, Attitude, Hands

• 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.

  Roger Scruton

  Sacrifice, Culture, Demand

  Roger Scruton (2013). “Modern Culture”, p.5, Bloomsbury Publishing

• In our democratic culture people often think it is threatening to judge another person's taste. Some are even offended by the suggestion that there is a difference between good and bad taste, or that it matters what you look at or read or listen to.

  Roger Scruton

  Thinking, Differences, Judging

• The first effect of modernism was to make high culture difficult: to surround beauty with a wall of erudition.

  Roger Scruton

  Wall, Culture, Firsts

  Roger Scruton (2013). “Modern Culture”, p.85, Bloomsbury Publishing

• The ethical life... is maintained in being by a common culture, which also upholds the togetherness of society... Unlike the modern youth culture, a common culture sanctifies the adult state, to which it offers rites of passage.

  Roger Scruton

  Modern Youth, Adults, Culture

  Roger Scruton (2006). “Modern Culture”, p.127, A&C Black

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