Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Comment on this quote Share via Email Print this Page [1-1] of 1 Roger Scruton quotesRoger Scruton QuotesRoger Scruton The welfare state that is built upon this conception seems to prove precisely away from the conservative conception of authoritative and personal government, towards a labyrinthine privilege sodden structure of anonymous power, structuring a citizenship that is increasingly reluctant to answer for itself, increasingly parasitic on the dispensations of a bureaucracy towards which it can feel no gratitude.~ Roger Scruton Share on Facebook Tweet Email Print