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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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We have descended into the garden and caught three hundred slugs. How I love the mixture of the beautiful and the squalid…
— Evelyn Underhill
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If one thinks only of winning, a sordid victory will be worse than a defeat. For the most part, it becomes a…
— Yamamoto Tsunetomo
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What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by a government…
— Learned Hand
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War, which used to be cruel and magnificent has now become cruel and squalid.
— Winston Churchill
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Word it as softly as you please, the spirit of patriotism is the spirit of the dog and wolf. The moment there…
— Mark Twain
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I found the offer of a knighthood something that I couldn't possibly accept. I found it to be somehow squalid, a knighthood.…
— Harold Pinter
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Whence shall come the new barbarians? Go through the squalid quarters of great cities, and you may see, even now, their gathering…
— Henry George
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Go ye, who rest so placidly upon the sacred Bard who had been young, and when he strung his harp was old,…
— Charles Dickens
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