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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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Look at Satan's reason for rebelling against God. It's not that he doesn't recognize that God is greater than he is. He…
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Christopher Hitchens was a wit, a charmer, and a troublemaker, and to those who knew him well, he was a gift from…
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I have been asked whether I wish to nominate a successor, an inheritor, a dauphin or delfino. I have decided to name…
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Christopher Hitchens is the greatest living essayist in the English language.
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I liked early Amis a lot, but I stopped reading him some time ago. I admire Hitchens on literary topics - I…
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Each of us should think of the future. Every puff on a cigarette is another tick closer to a time bomb of…
— Ray Comfort
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I do look for openings where I can overturn popular misconceptions, but unlike Christopher Hitchens, I am neither a contrarian nor a…
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Christopher Hitchens was a great warrior, a magnificent orator, a pugilist and a gentleman. He was kind, but he took no prisoners…
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