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Terry Eagleton has 87 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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It is silly to call fat people ''gravitationally challenged'' - a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom…
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Language, identity and forms of life are the terms in which political demands are shaped and voiced.
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From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It is culture,…
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[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon…
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Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.
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It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.
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Being brought up in a culture is a matter of learning appropriate forms of feeling as much as particular ways of thinking.
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An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin, and a…
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I've had my fill of Hitler. These conferences called by the ringing of a bell are not to my liking. The bell…
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The Arabs could have peace tomorrow if sufficient numbers of Palestinians were not content to be used as cannon fodder in fruitless…
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I have decided, it is fruitless. For I am no longer sure of anything concerning my existance. A philosopher is a dead…
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All good intellects have repeated, since Bacon's time, that there can be no real knowledge but that which is based on observed…
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The specualtist, who is not content with superficial views, harasses himself with fruitless curiosity; and still, as he inquires more, perceives only…
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I assume my stance, and take back the club, low, slowly; at the top, my eyes fog over, and my joints dip…
— John Updike
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Revenge is fruitless.
— Janet Morris
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