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Intellectuals are naturally attracted by the idea of a planned society, in the belief that they will be in charge of it.


Roger Scruton

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ROGER STAUBACH Every man's closet must contain a trench coat. It's hard for any gentleman not to look dashi...
ROGER STONE You can have a movie with hardly any cuts, or very few cuts, that is fascinating, you can't take...
ROGER EBERT How can you be conservative and justify wiretapping people without a warrant? We're supposed to ...
ROGER STONE Money is speech. It's incongruous to say a multimillionaire can spend as much on his own campaig...
ROGER STONE Anthony Weiner is a crafty and worthy adversary - an unrepentant lefty who is usually a savvy media ...
ROGER STONE I want clean water and clean air and conservation... that's not what extreme environmentalists a...
ROGER AILES Wish You Were Here

So, so you think you can tell
Heaven from Hell,
Blue skys...
ROGER WATERS The basic premise of this is that, yes, people have learned to clone each other, but that cloning is...
ROGER SPOTTISWOODE The way you continue to be a successful business is you don't wait for the car to go off the cli...
ROGER GOODELL From a dramatic viewpoint, there are few professions that grant their members entry into other lives...
ROGER EBERT If someone asks you why you're oppressing a world and you reply with a lot of poetic crap, no. I gue...
ROGER ZELAZNY It's kind of fun to be a clown. I've always played the clown. The clowns come on, get the bi...
ROGER BART No movie has ever been able to provide a catharsis for the Holocaust, and I suspect none will ever b...
ROGER EBERT In a capitalistic society, success is determined by whether you can pay the bills.
ROGER AILES Canon law itself says for one case of guilt, a priest can be dismissed from the clerical state. One.
ROGER MAHONY A lot of my reading over the next few months will be the works of Hans Christian Andersen - I have b...
ROGER MOORE I believe the GOP should pitch its big-top tent around fiscal conservatism and a muscular foreign po...
ROGER STONE Every great film should seem new every time you see it."
Roger Ebert
ROGER EBERT Being challenged in life is inevitable, being defeated is optional.
ROGER CRAWFORD I like libraries. It makes me feel comfortable and secure to have walls of words, beautiful and wise...
ROGER ZELAZNY Burberry makes the best version of the traditional trench coat, which can have a zipper and button-i...
ROGER STONE Sometimes miraculous films come into being, made by people you've never heard of, starring unkno...
ROGER EBERT