"Nothing in human life is inherently private." — Terry Eagleton
"Nothing in human life is inherently private."
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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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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition.
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The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all…
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We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and…
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It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has…
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When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
— Aristotle
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Courage is the first of human qualities because it is the quality which guarantees the others.
— Aristotle
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I'd love to do a movie where the monster is human, where the issue is not otherworldly, or horror or…
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Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to…
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No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.
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