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Inspirational Quotes by Terry Eagleton
- It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.
- Those who sentimentally indulge humanity do it no favours.
- Anyone can be tolerant of those who are tolerant.
- Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing only a giant boa constrictor. There is no…
- Deconstruction insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.
- God chose what is weakest in the world to shame the strong.
- Americans use the word 'dream' as often as psychoanalysts do.
- Evil is often supposed to be without rhyme or reason.
- I attacked Dawkins's book on God because I think he is theologically illiterate.
- It is true that too much belief can be bad for your health.
- Nothing in human life is inherently private.
- The frontier between public and private shifts from time to time and culture to culture.
- The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it.
- Today, nostalgia is almost as unacceptable as racism.
- After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.
- Successful revolutions are those which end up by erasing all traces of themselves.
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