Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
Language, identity and forms of life are the terms in which political demands are shaped and voiced.
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These political movements flourish on the margins of Turkish society because of poverty and because of the people's feeling that they are not being represented.
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I was that weird eight-year-old who was really interested in Shakespeare and understood it and appreciated the language.
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Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up.
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Language is me, in a way. Really, I feel it.
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Of course we wish that more people involved in the leak of my true CIA identity had been prosecuted, but the system worked.
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This Republic was called into being, organized, and is upheld, by a great political doctrine.
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The right-wing of the Republican party isn't so much a political agenda as a plea for help.
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On one side, citizens have great respect for the United States; they have a great feeling of friendship. That is solid. But in the opposition and in the political arena I often find criticism of the closeness of relations with the United States. That is a reality.
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The simple truth of our finiteness is that we could, by whatever means, go on interminably only at the price of either losing the past and, therewith, our identity, or living only in the past and therefore without a real present. We cannot seriously wish either and thus not a physical enduring at that price.
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That job should not be a political job. We should not be hearing very publicly from the leader of the FBI.
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The relations between rhetoric and ethics are disturbing: the ease with which language can be twisted is worrisome, and the fact that our minds accept these perverse games so docilely is no less cause for concern.
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To embrace Hindutva is to embrace an obscurantist, backward looking, divisive ideology that seeks to polarise society through identity politics.
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While I do not hesitate to applaud certain aspects of the resolution honoring the sacrifices of our courageous soldiers who are risking their lives in Iraq, I cannot be supportive of capitalizing on these very sacrifices for political gain.
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I was interested in political failure here in the U.S. The way we're failing to work together to solve even our smallest problems, let alone the complex ones.
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We have the tools, but we have to learn how to use them. That is my political philosophy.
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I don't wear my political feelings on my sleeve. However, if I'm asked, I will answer honestly.
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I think cinema has this beautiful component. It's a universal language.
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English is not my first language.
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I continue to believe when I said in Hanover, that the E.U. remains one of the world's great political and economic achievements, and that those achievements should not be taken for granted.
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If all our political and intellectual elite offers by way of a national culture is "pop music, gambling, fashionable clothes or television," then we can neither mount a convincing intellectual defense against our enemies, nor hope to integrate intelligent, inquiring, and unfulfilled Muslim youths young men principally, of course to our way of life.
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Our ability to effectively engage China and the Arab world rests on shared economic and political interests and mutual understanding.
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I think there is something for all of us where you find a balance in your life, where you feel that everything you do isn't about your own creature comforts or satisfying your own appetites. Some of it has to be directed outward and there is a huge satisfaction in that.
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Would a CONSCIOUS human being destroy himself through war, and crime, and quarrels? No, a man simply knows not what he does to himself.
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Language, identity and forms of life are the terms in which political demands are shaped and voiced.
