A free society is a community of free beings, bound by the … - Roger Scruton

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A free society is a community of free beings, bound by the laws of sympathy and by the obligations of family love. It is not a society of people released from all moral constraint–for that is precisely the opposite of a society. Without moral constraint there can be no cooperation, no family commitment, no long-term prospects, no hope of economic, let alone social, order.

Roger Scruton

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About Roger Scruton

Roger Scruton (27 February 1944 – 12 January 2020) was a British philosopher, who worked as an academic, editor, publisher, barrister, journalist, broadcaster, countryside campaigner, novelist, and composer.

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Birth Name: Roger Vernon

Alternative Names: Roger Vernon Scruton • Professor Sir Roger Vernon Scruton

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