Chaos lies all around us, and our first duty is to impose upon it whatever order – spiritual, moral, aesthetic – it can bear. The alternative to order is not freedom, which is a form of order and its highest purpose, but disorder, randomness and decay. Established order, founded on customs that are followed and respected, is always to be preferred to the ideas, however exultant and inspiring, of those who would liberate us from our inherited sense of obligation.
Sir Roger Scruton
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