Roger Scruton Quotes

I am greatly misunderstood by politically correct idiots.

I have gotten more flak for being a conservative Republican than I have for being trans.

This lie of political correctness is bringing this country down. You just want to break through it all.

At the Oscars, if you didn't vote for '12 Years a Slave,' you were a racist. You have to be very careful about what you say. I do have particular views and opinions that most of this town doesn't share, but it's not like I'm a fascist or a racist. There's nothing like that in my history.

I'm not politically correct; I never said I was.

I'm not politically correct.

Because of my political views, I've been targeted as a lightning rod, someone who's too far out there.

Politicians really worry about being politically correct.

I'm not a politically correct person.

One of my goals in life is to watch political correctness shrivel up and die (as it should be for any true conservative).

There's no getting around it - I am a politically incorrect, racially insensitive, culturally controversial comic, but at least I'm self-aware.

We must start pushing back against this politically correct nonsense that's destroying our society and culture.

I wouldn't think I was successful if I didn't have just as many people hate me as support me.

Each side had its uninformed fanatics. And each side had political leaders who fanned the flames with their rhetoric.

The world is governed by opinions.

The enormous gap between what US leaders do in the world and what Americans think their leaders are doing is one of the great propaganda accomplishments of the dominant political mythology

… cases of injustice, and oppression, and tyranny, and the most extravagant bigotry, are in constant occurrence among us every day. It is the custom to trumpet forth much wonder and astonishment at the chief actors therein setting at defiance so completely the opinion of the world; but there is no greater fallacy; it is precisely because they do consult the opinion of their own little world that such things take place at all, and strike the great world dumb with amazement.

In Ulster every man's creed is known and noted and ninety-nine men in a hundred vote according to their creed.

Islam is the mother lode of bad ideas.

We now live in a very polarized nation, divided not between Republicans and Democrats but between those who want to defend our liberties and those who want to defend politically correct stupidities.

There is a no-man's land in our politics: on the one hand, bounded by what we know to be true, and on the other hand, bounded by what the media says is politically correct. And that's where Donald Trump lives. And it's our failure to admit what we all know to be true in the guise of political correctness that fuels the Trump candidacy.

Fear is contagious, and those who wish America to become a faith-based society are doing their best to spread it.

When liberals dismiss all Trump supporters as racists, this only fuels their anger.

Although my stance on responsible citizenship made sense to many Israelis, the intelligentsia could not, as you say in English, get their heads around it. 'Racist' and 'fascist' were the knee-jerk reactions.

The heck with political correctness. I've never believed in it.