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Who Quotes by Terry Eagleton
- Those who sentimentally indulge humanity do it no favours.
- Dawkins considers that all faith is blind faith, and that Christian and Muslim children are brought up to believe unquestioningly. Not even the dim-witted clerics…
- It is true that some liberals and humanists, along with the laid-back Danes, deny the existence of evil. This is largely because they regard the…
- The study of history and philosophy, accompanied by some acquaintance with art and literature, should be for lawyers and engineers as well as for those…
- 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.…
- Anyone can be tolerant of those who are tolerant.
- Virtue is something you have to get good at, like playing the trombone or tolerating bores at parties. Being a virtuous human being takes practice;…
More Who Quotes
- Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because men are… — Aristotle
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- Sometimes people who want to understand Haiti from a political perspective may be missing part of the picture. They also need to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- We construct a narrative for ourselves, and that's the thread that we follow from one day to the next. People who disintegrate… — Paul Auster
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- Aside from a handful of guys boxing is missing the good trainers, that's why our sport is so in the air now… — Alexis Arguello
- I work with really hard-working people who are really good at what they do. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle