"Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism." — Terry Eagleton
"Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism."
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Terry Eagleton
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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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More Determinism Quotes
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History does not teach fatalism. There are moments when the will of a handful of free men breaks through determinism…
— Charles de Gaulle
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Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent.
— Carl Sandburg
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It is not what you gather but what you scatter that tells what kind of life you have lived.
— Helen Walton
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Your present circumstances don't determine where you can go; they merely determine where you start.
— Nido R Qubein
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Biological determinism is, in its essence, a theory of limits. It takes the current status of groups as a measure…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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To me, the definition of focus is knowing exactly where you want to be today, next week, next month, next…
— Bruce Jenner
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The great paradox of determinism and free will, which has held the attention of the wisest of philosophers and psychologists…
— E. O. Wilson
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Follow your most intense obsessions mercilessly.
— Franz Kafka
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... what we should be looking for is fresh ideas of how we make moral decisions about our dealings with…
— Davis McCaughey
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Success is not measured by what you do compared to what others do, it is measured by what you do…
— Nicky Gumbel
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Determinism is the thesis that is true at every moment that the way things then are determines a unique future,…
— Peter van Inwagen
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A guidance counselor who has made a fetish of security, or who has unwittingly surrendered his thinking to economic determinism,…
— Henry Wriston
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