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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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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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You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.
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The most common mistake students of literature make is to go straight for what the poem or novel says, setting aside the…
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Ideology... is a kind of contemporary mythology, a realm which has purged itself of ambiguity and alternative possibility.
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What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One can understand…
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Yahweh is presented in the Jewish Bible as stateless and nationless. He can’t be used as a totem or fetish in that…
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I grew up with all mothers, all women. I come from a long line of matriarchs, very strong women.
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I come from a long line of saloon keepers and proselytizers, and I draw from both sides.
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Global consciousness is not an objective belief that can be taught to anybody and everybody, but a subjective transformation in the interior…
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Every new year is the direct descendant, isn't it, of a long line of proven criminals?
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In the world of highways, a beautiful landscape means: an island of beauty connected by a long line with other islands of…
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I've had a dozen people tell me, maybe more, 'What would have happened if Michael Brown had shot and killed Darren Wilson?…
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You can see the latest dumbness as just the end of a long line of dumbnesses that have been taking place for…
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