"Real men study law and engineering, while ideas……" — Terry Eagleton
"Real men study law and engineering, while ideas and values are for sissies. The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name."
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Terry Eagleton
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87 Quotes by Terry Eagleton
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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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