"Evil is often supposed to be without rhyme…" — Terry Eagleton

Evil is often supposed to be without rhyme or reason. - Terry Eagleton

"Evil is often supposed to be without rhyme or reason."

— Terry Eagleton

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87 Quotes by Terry Eagleton

Terry Eagleton has 87 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

It is silly to call fat people ''gravitationally challenged'' - a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than…
From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It…
[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine.…
Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.
It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.
Being brought up in a culture is a matter of learning appropriate forms of feeling as much as particular ways…
An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin,…
You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.
The most common mistake students of literature make is to go straight for what the poem or novel says, setting…
Ideology... is a kind of contemporary mythology, a realm which has purged itself of ambiguity and alternative possibility.
What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One…
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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Only crime and the criminal, it is true, confront us with the perplexity of radical evil; but only the hypocrite… — Hannah Arendt
The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good… — Hannah Arendt
Fear is pain arising from the anticipation of evil. — Aristotle
No notice is taken of a little evil, but when it increases it strikes the eye. — Aristotle
The generality of men are naturally apt to be swayed by fear rather than reverence, and to refrain from evil… — Aristotle
The extravagant expenditure of public money is an evil not to be measured by the value of that money to… — Chester A. Arthur
Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings! — Mackenzie Astin
Evil is unspectacular and always human, and shares our bed and eats at our own table. — Wystan Hugh Auden
Good can imagine Evil; but Evil cannot imagine Good. — Wystan Hugh Auden
The greatest evil is physical pain. — Saint Augustine
He that is kind is free, though he is a slave; he that is evil is a slave, though he… — Saint Augustine
God judged it better to bring good out of evil than to suffer no evil to exist. — Saint Augustine

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