Roger Scruton Quotes About Desire

Quotes about: Desire

• Fantasy consists in a morbid fascination with unrealities, which secretly transforms itself into a desire to make them real. Imagination is a form of intellectual control, which presents us with the image of unrealities in order that we should understand and feel distanced from them. In imagination we dominate; in fantasy, we are dominated.

  Roger Scruton

  Real, Order, Imagination

• Modern art was born from a desire to destroy kitsch.

  Roger Scruton

  Art, Desire, Kitsch

• States are more like people than they are like anything else: they exist by purpose, reason, suffering, and joy. And peace between states is also like peace between people. It involves the willing renunciation of purpose, in the mutual desire not to do, but to be.

  Roger Scruton

  People, Diversity, Joy

• In all the areas of life where people have sought and found consolation through forbidding their desires-sex in particular, and taste in general-the habit of judgment is now to be stamped out.

  Roger Scruton

  Sex, People, Desire

  Roger Scruton (2007). “Culture Counts: Faith and Feeling in a World Besieged”, p.106, Encounter Books

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