"In the end, it is because the media……" — Terry Eagleton
"In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private lives into public spectacles. If every private life is now potentially public property, it is because private property has undermined public responsibility."
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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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How I work is I work from of very character-driven place. And I trust the writers.
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I suspect that many of the great cultural shifts that prepare the way for political change are largely aesthetic. A…
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I'm as pure as the driven slush.
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Hip-hop don't have no fresh energy, none at all. It's money driven, everybody tryin' to make that cheque, nobody putting…
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We, therefore, here in Britain stand shoulder to shoulder with our American friends in this hour of tragedy, and we,…
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