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"'''Conservatism starts from a sentiment that all mature people can readily share: the sentiment that good things are easily destroyed, but not easily created.''' This is especially true of the good things that come to us as collective assets: peace, freedom, law, civility, public spirit, the security of property and family life, in all of which we depend on the cooperation of others while having no means singlehandedly to obtain it. In respect of such things, the work of destruction is quick, easy and exhilarating; the work of creation is slow, laborious and dull. That is one of the lessons of the twentieth century. It is also one reason why conservatives suffer such a disadvantage when it comes to public opinion. Their position is true but boring, that of their opponents exciting but false." | "'''Conservatism starts from a sentiment that all mature people can readily share: the sentiment that good things are easily destroyed, but not easily created.''' This is especially true of the good things that come to us as collective assets: peace, freedom, law, civility, public spirit, the security of property and family life, in all of which we depend on the cooperation of others while having no means singlehandedly to obtain it. In respect of such things, the work of destruction is quick, easy and exhilarating; the work of creation is slow, laborious and dull. That is one of the lessons of the twentieth century. It is also one reason why conservatives suffer such a disadvantage when it comes to public opinion. Their position is true but boring, that of their opponents exciting but false." | ||
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« Dans ses ''Réflexions sur la Révolution de France'', Edmund Burke critiquait la politique "géométrique", telle qu'il la nommait, des révolutionnaires français — une politique qui proposait un but rationnel et une procédure collective pour l'atteindre, et qui voulait entraîner l'ensemble de la société derrière le programme qui en résultait. Burke voyait la société comme l'association des morts, des vivants | « Dans ses ''Réflexions sur la Révolution de France'', Edmund Burke critiquait la politique "géométrique", telle qu'il la nommait, des révolutionnaires français — une politique qui proposait un but rationnel et une procédure collective pour l'atteindre, et qui voulait entraîner l'ensemble de la société derrière le programme qui en résultait. Burke voyait la société comme l'association des morts, des vivants | ||
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"Take any aspect of the Western inheritance of which our ancestors were proud, and you will find university courses devoted to deconstructing it. Take any positive feature of our political and cultural inheritance, and you will find concerted efforts in both the media and the academy to place it in quotation marks, and make it look like an imposture or a deceit." | "Take any aspect of the Western inheritance of which our ancestors were proud, and you will find university courses devoted to deconstructing it. Take any positive feature of our political and cultural inheritance, and you will find concerted efforts in both the media and the academy to place it in quotation marks, and make it look like an imposture or a deceit." | ||
*[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Scruton Roger Scruton], ''How to Be a Conservative'' (2014), Bloomsbury, 2014 (ISBN 9781472924001), p. 40 | *[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Scruton Roger Scruton], ''How to Be a Conservative'' (2014), Bloomsbury, 2014 (ISBN 9781472924001), p. 40 | ||
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Citationes
"Conservatism starts from a sentiment that all mature people can readily share: the sentiment that good things are easily destroyed, but not easily created. This is especially true of the good things that come to us as collective assets: peace, freedom, law, civility, public spirit, the security of property and family life, in all of which we depend on the cooperation of others while having no means singlehandedly to obtain it. In respect of such things, the work of destruction is quick, easy and exhilarating; the work of creation is slow, laborious and dull. That is one of the lessons of the twentieth century. It is also one reason why conservatives suffer such a disadvantage when it comes to public opinion. Their position is true but boring, that of their opponents exciting but false."
- Roger Scruton, How to Be a Conservative (2014), Bloomsbury, 2014 (ISBN 9781472924001), pp. viii-ix
- « Le point de départ du conservatisme est ce sentiment que toutes les personnes d'âge mûr partagent sans mal : le sentiment que les choses bonnes peuvent être aisément détruites, mais non aisément créées. C'est particulièrement vrai de ce qui se présente à nous comme des biens collectifs : la paix, la liberté, le droit, la civilité, l'esprit public, la protection de la propriété, la famille, tous domaines où nous dépendons de la coopération des autres tout en n'ayant aucun moyen de l'obtenir sans leur aide. Concernant ces biens, l'œuvre de destruction est rapide, aisée et exaltante ; l'œuvre de création lente, laborieuse et maussade. C'est une des leçons du XXe siècle. C'est aussi une raison pour laquelle les conservateurs subissent un tel désavantage quand il s'agit de l'opinion publique. Leur position est vraie mais ennuyeuse ; celle de leurs adversaires enthousiasmante mais fausse. »
- Roger Scruton, De l'urgence d'être conservateur (2014), éd. L'artilleur, 2016 (ISBN 9782810007103), pp. 15-16
« Dans ses Réflexions sur la Révolution de France, Edmund Burke critiquait la politique "géométrique", telle qu'il la nommait, des révolutionnaires français — une politique qui proposait un but rationnel et une procédure collective pour l'atteindre, et qui voulait entraîner l'ensemble de la société derrière le programme qui en résultait. Burke voyait la société comme l'association des morts, des vivants
"Take any aspect of the Western inheritance of which our ancestors were proud, and you will find university courses devoted to deconstructing it. Take any positive feature of our political and cultural inheritance, and you will find concerted efforts in both the media and the academy to place it in quotation marks, and make it look like an imposture or a deceit."
- Roger Scruton, How to Be a Conservative (2014), Bloomsbury, 2014 (ISBN 9781472924001), p. 40