"Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing……" — Terry Eagleton
"Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing only a giant boa constrictor. There is no context which would make it explicable."
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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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OMG! Is this true? [Marcus Bachmann] has a Christian clinic where he de-programs gay boys & girls! I'm gonna strangle…
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You don't have to signal a social conscience by looking like a frump. Lace knickers won't hasten the holocaust, you…
— Elizabeth Bibesco
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This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basra.…
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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One can describe them as a boa: when it feels threatened, it runs to somewhere else.
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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After the briskness of loving, loving stops. And you roll over with death stretched out alongside you like a feather…
— Susan Minot
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As there is no worse lie than a truth misunderstood by those who hear it, so reasonable arguments, challenges to…
— William James
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I don't get all this Speedo stuff actually, I mean, whatever happened to the feather boa?
— Boy George
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It's fine if you want a system that shows a boa constrictor to better advantage than a man.
— George Stevens
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This boa, the American columns, are being besieged between Basra and other towns north, west, south and west of Basra……
— Mohammed Saeed al-Sahaf
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It (Hinduism) is like the boa constrictor of the Indian forests. When a petty enemy appears to worry it, it…
— Unknown Author
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When things get tough, this is what you should do: Make good art. I'm serious. Husband runs off with a…
— Neil Gaiman
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I have been wearing black, which was a reaction to the Ginger thing. But now I have hopes and I…
— Geri Halliwell
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