Roger Scruton Quotes

The Recent Experience Of Totalitarianism In Europe Was Foreshadowed At The French Revolution, When The Committee Of Public Safety Acted In The Same Way As The Nazi And Communist Parties, Setting Up 'parallel Structures' Through Which To Control The State And To Exert A Micromanagerial Tyranny Over Every Aspect Of Civil Society.
Let Us At Least Be Realistic, And Recognize That, If Totalitarian Governments Have Arisen And Spread With Such Rapidity In Modern Times, This Is Because There Is Something In Human Nature To Which They Correspond And On Which They Draw For Their Moral Energy.

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