"... Capitalism will behave antisocially if it is……" — Terry Eagleton
"... Capitalism will behave antisocially if it is profitable for it to do so, and that can now mean human devastation on an unimaginable scale. What used to be apocalyptic fantasy is today no more than sober realism...."
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87 Quotes by Terry Eagleton
Terry Eagleton has 87 quotes on this site.
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It is silly to call fat people ''gravitationally challenged'' - a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than…
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From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It…
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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.…
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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…
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An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin,…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Texting is apocalyptic on some level. It's a reduction of things.
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It is fashionable to wax apocalyptic about the threat to humanity posed by the AIDS virus, "mad cow" disease, and…
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If the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) raises the hackles of the conspiracy theorists, the Bilderberg meetings must induce apocalyptic…
— David Rockefeller
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In my own country, many of the movies in recent years express our innate fears about what awaits us. They…
— Hillary Clinton
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I feel like when we talk about post-apocalyptic themes that's what we're really talking about. We're always returning to this…
— Unknown Author
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When a friend of mine introduced me to the music of Luca C & Brigante I was stuck with an…
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It is the world's first Ebola epidemic, and it's spiraling out of control. It's bad now, and it's going to…
— Tom Frieden
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This outbreak is moving ahead of efforts to control it.
— David Nabarro
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...we hope to stop the transmission in six to nine months
— Margaret Chan
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The level of outbreak is beyond anything we've seen-or even imagined.
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This is different than every other Ebola situation we've ever had. It's spreading widely, throughout entire countries, through multiple countries,…
— Unknown Author
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Emergency rooms are closed, many hospital wards are as well leaving people who are sick with heart disease, trauma, pregnancy…
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