"The past can be used to renew the……" — Terry Eagleton
"The past can be used to renew the present, not just to bury it."
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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 Bury Quotes
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I am my heart's undertaker. Daily I go and retrieve its tattered remains, place them delicately into its little coffin,…
— Emilie Autumn
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Every man should keep a fair-sized cemetery in which to bury the faults of his friends.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Today we bury his remains in the earth as a seed of immortality. Our hearts are full of sadness, yet…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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A lot of cultures believe you take the placenta and you bury it and plant something.
— Brooke Burke
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Man's unhappiness, as I construe, comes of his greatness; it is because there is an Infinite in him, which with…
— Thomas Carlyle
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In order to have a charismatic leader, you have to have a charismatic program. Because if you have a charismatic…
— John Henrik Clarke
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Bury me smilin' with G's in my pocket, Have a party at my funeral let every rapper rock it Let…
— Tupac Shakur
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When I die, bury me on my stomach and let the world kiss my ass.
— LL Cool J
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They wanna bury me im worried. Im loosin my mind look down the barrel of my nine and my visions…
— Tupac Shakur
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Lose/Win people bury a lot of feelings. And unexpressed feelings come forth later in uglier ways. Psychosomatic illnesses often are…
— Stephen Covey
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We had a death pact, and I have to keep my half of the bargain. Please bury me next to…
— Sid Vicious
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Then my verse I dishonor, my pictures despise, my person degrade and my temper chastise; and the pen is my…
— William Blake
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