"Today, nostalgia is almost as unacceptable as racism." — Terry Eagleton

"Today, nostalgia is almost as unacceptable as racism."

— Terry Eagleton

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87 Quotes by Terry Eagleton

Terry Eagleton has 87 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

It is silly to call fat people ''gravitationally challenged'' - a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than…
From the viewpoint of political power, culture is absolutely vital. So vital, indeed, that power cannot operate without it. It…
[F]or the most part football these days is the opium of the people, not to speak of their crack cocaine.…
Genuine equality means not treating everyone the same, but attending equally to everyone’s different needs.
It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.
Being brought up in a culture is a matter of learning appropriate forms of feeling as much as particular ways…
An enlightened trust in the sovereignty of human reason can be every bit as magical as the exploits of Merlin,…
You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.
The most common mistake students of literature make is to go straight for what the poem or novel says, setting…
Ideology... is a kind of contemporary mythology, a realm which has purged itself of ambiguity and alternative possibility.
What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One…
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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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes. — Hannah Arendt
There are no dangerous thoughts; thinking itself is dangerous. — Hannah Arendt
Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it. — Hannah Arendt
By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
To be free in an age like ours, one must be in a position of authority. That in itself would… — Hannah Arendt
Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
I love you, and because I love you, I would sooner have you hate me for telling you the truth… — Pietro Aretino
Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
I went through a phase where I thought nostalgia was a bad thing. — Dario Argento
In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento

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