“All of our descriptive statements move within an often invisible network of value-categories, and indeed without such categories we would have nothing… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The role of the intellectual, so it is said, is to speak truth to power. Noam Chomsky has dismissed this pious tag… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It is culture,… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“Statements of fact are after all statements, which presumes a number of questionable judgements: that those statements are worth making, perhaps more… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Men and women do not easily submit to a power that does not weave itself into the texture of their daily existence… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
It is easy to see why a diversity of cultures should confront power with a problem. If culture is about plurality, power… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates systematically from everyday speech. If you approach me at a bus stop and murmur Thou still unravished… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
To claim that science and religion pose different questions to the world is not to suggest that if the bones of Jesus were discovered… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human being takes… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly not constructive. For if the… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
Reading is not a straightforward linear movement, a merely cumulative affair: our initial speculations generate a frame of reference within which to interpret what… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“What it means to be a ‘better person’, then, must be concrete and practical — that is to say, concerned with people’s political situations… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“What we consume now is not objects or events, but our experience of them. Just as we never need to leave our cars, so… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
“The theatre can teach us some truth, but it is the truth of the illusory nature of our existence. It can alert us to… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
