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Power Quotes by Terry Eagleton
- From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It is culture, in the sense…
- [F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine. Its icon is the impeccably…
- In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private lives into public…
- It is easy to see why a diversity of cultures should confront power with a problem. If culture is about plurality, power is about unity.…
- The role of the intellectual, so it is said, is to speak truth to power. Noam Chomsky has dismissed this pious tag on two grounds.…
- Men and women do not easily submit to a power that does not weave itself into the texture of their daily existence - one reason…
More Power Quotes
- To this military attitude of the soul we give the name of Heroism... It is a self-trust which slights the restraints of… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- A good intention clothes itself with power. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- Power and violence are opposites; where the one rules absolutely, the other is absent. Violence appears where power is in jeopardy, but… — Hannah Arendt
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- The ultimate value of life depends upon awareness and the power of contemplation rather than upon mere survival. — Aristotle
- The one exclusive sign of thorough knowledge is the power of teaching. — Aristotle