Quotation by Roger Scruton

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The two most potent post-war orthodoxies—socialist politics and modernist art—have at least one feature in common: they are both forms of snobbery, the anti-bourgeois snobbery of people convinced of their right to dictate to the common man in the name of the common man.

Roger Scruton

Roger Scruton (b. 1944), British philosopher, author. "In Praise of Bourgeois Art," Untimely Tracts, St. Martin's (1987).

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