"Yahweh is presented in the Jewish Bible as……" — Terry Eagleton
"Yahweh is presented in the Jewish Bible as stateless and nationless. He can’t be used as a totem or fetish in that way."
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87 Quotes by Terry Eagleton
Terry Eagleton has 87 quotes on this site.
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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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Works of art cannot save us. They can simply render us more sensitive to what needs to be repaired.
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I read Shakespeare and the Bible, and I can shoot dice. That's what I call a liberal education.
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Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.
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Some quality performances and movies have a chance to be rewarded, but it's not like it's a bible.
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I would point out that if you're a believer in the Bible, one would have to say the Great Flood…
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The fundamental story arc of the Bible is God is passionate about rescuing this world, restoring it, renewing it.
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Both read the Bible day and night, but thou read black where I read white.
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My ancestors wandered lost in the wilderness for forty years because even in biblical times, men would not stop to…
— Elayne Boosler
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