Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes
Language, identity and forms of life are the terms in which political demands are shaped and voiced.
Terry Eagleton
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The right-wing of the Republican party isn't so much a political agenda as a plea for help.
Larry Flynt
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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.
Vicente Fox
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When I started off with Trainspotting, it was the way the characters came to me. That's how they sounded to me. It seemed pretentious to sound any other way. I wasn't making any kind of political statement.
Irvine Welsh
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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.
Hans Jonas
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The nineteenth century, especially the second half of it, was a time of restatement in Ireland. After the famine, after the failed rebellions of the Forties and Sixties, the cultural and political desires for self-determination began to shape each other in a series of riffs on independence and identity.
Eavan Boland
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While liberals are leery of religious fundamentalism in general, they consistently imagine that all religions at their core teach the same thing and teach it equally well. This is one of the many delusions borne of political correctness.
Sam Harris
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When I left the Senate in January 2013, I decided to take a full year away from all media interviews, editorial articles, and direct political activities.
Jim Webb
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Quite simply, I maintained contact with Sinn Fein and believed that there had to be a political, not a military, solution to the situation in Northern Ireland.
Jeremy Corbyn
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My worry about this exclusive focus on Trump - the personality and how all of this is so unprecedented - is that then the solution seems to be, 'Well, we'll just get rid of Trump.'
Naomi Klein
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In the case of the Indian villager, an age-old culture is hidden under entrustment of crudeness.
Mahatma Gandhi
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All coincidences are Odd. That's what makes them coincidences.
A. Lee Martinez
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Language, identity and forms of life are the terms in which political demands are shaped and voiced.
Terry Eagleton
