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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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Self-love is often rather arrogant than blind; it does not hide our faults from ourselves, but persuades us that they escape the…
— Samuel Johnson
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With one of the most bewitching sounds in the world, its purr, the cat persuades us that it thinks we are wonderful.
— Akif Pirincci
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Where mathematics and spirit join, where proof of the existence of mystery-salvific mystery-shimmers just below the surfaces of human perception, experience and…
— Jorie Graham
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Do your homework and know your facts, but remember it's passion that persuades.
— H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Zen is not a philosophy, it is poetry. It does not propose, it simply persuades. It does not argue, it simply sings…
— Rajneesh
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If freedom's best friends cannot unify around a realistic, actionable program of fundamental change, one that attracts and persuades a broad majority…
— Mitch Daniels
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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…
— Terry Eagleton
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In the West the whole Western tradition of religion and psychology propounds, preaches, persuades people to have strong egos - because unless…
— Rajneesh
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Every man naturally persuades himself that he can keep his resolutions, nor is he convinced of his imbecility but by length of…
— Samuel Johnson
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A person's life persuades better than his word.
— Aristotle
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We communicate with passion and passion persuades.
— Anita Roddick
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The mischief of flattery is, not that it persuades any man that he is what he is not, but that it suppresses…
— Samuel Johnson
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