« All Fetish Quotes
·
Terry Eagleton's Page
Fetish Quotes by Terry Eagleton
1 Fetish quote by Terry Eagleton
More Quotes by Terry Eagleton
Terry Eagleton has 87 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
-
It is silly to call fat people ''gravitationally challenged'' - a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom…
-
From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It is culture,…
-
[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon…
-
Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.
-
It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.
-
Being brought up in a culture is a matter of learning appropriate forms of feeling as much as particular ways of thinking.
-
An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin, and a…
-
You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.
-
The most common mistake students of literature make is to go straight for what the poem or novel says, setting aside the…
-
Ideology... is a kind of contemporary mythology, a realm which has purged itself of ambiguity and alternative possibility.
-
What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One can understand…
-
Yahweh is presented in the Jewish Bible as stateless and nationless. He can’t be used as a totem or fetish in that…
See all 87 quotes by Terry Eagleton »
More Fetish Quotes
Popular Fetish quotes from across the collection:
-
I hate 'foodie' because it's cute, like pretty much all diminutives associated with eating. 'Veggies,' 'sammies,' 'parm.' I eat food, and I…
— Steve Albini
-
A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism, may steer…
— Henry Wriston
-
Perfection can be a fetish
— Bernard Leach
-
I have always been a friend to hero-worship; it is the only rational one, and has always been in use amongst civilized…
— George Henry Borrow
-
The professional celebrity, male and female, is the crowning result of the star system of a society that makes a fetish of…
— C. Wright Mills
-
I like feet. I definitely have a fetish. I love to see a man's bare foot, but it's got to be taken…
— Brooke Burke
-
Writing is self-reinforcing. Don't make a fetish out of it, and don't surrender to the myth of the garret, or the myth…
— Unknown Author
-
All of my roles have had their own unique set of challenges, and I enjoy that in some perverse, masochistic way. I’m…
— Jared Leto
-
I have a pirate fetish-I just always thought eye patches were sexy. If you want to get my attention, wear a pirate…
— Michelle Branch
-
SM is an art. Doing it well requires more than a bag full of expensive whips and exotic electrical toys, a closet…
— Patrick Califia
-
I admit that my visions can never mean to other men as much as they do to me. I do not regret…
— Aleister Crowley
-
I always had a fetish for murder and death.
— David Berkowitz
See all Fetish Quotes »
Browse Terry Eagleton Quotes by Category