Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes

In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private lives into public spectacles. If every private life is now potentially public property, it is because private property has undermined public responsibility.

Terry Eagleton

• Responsibility
• Individual
• Wealth
• Property
• Driven
• Spectacles

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• You are dealing with people who have taken the responsibility of killing their own because they think that they are right, they think that they are serving the interests of their people. They not going to give that up easily, just because you've shown up.

  

  Lakhdar Brahimi
  • People
  • Up
  • Responsibility

• You should be appeasing people as much as possible, not stigmatising them. The ban of the burkini puts into question people's individual freedoms.

  

  Najat Vallaud-Belkacem
  • People
  • Question
  • Individual

• My heart is as pure as the driven slush.

  

  Tallulah Bankhead
  • Heart
  • Driven
  • Pure

• I am not driven.

  

  Cameron Mackintosh
  • Driven

• Besides entertainment and action, I want to educate. You know, as a producer or director, we do have a responsibility to society.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Society
  • Action
  • Responsibility

• I remember the first reading of the script we had and everybody was sitting around the table. I was very impressed with the level of acting that was in the room, particularly with Jennifer who has so much responsibility.

  

  Victor Garber
  • Remember
  • Reading
  • Responsibility

• I was driven completely by a desire to understand how cells worked.

  

  Randy Schekman
  • Desire
  • Understand
  • Driven

• In Greece, Italy and, to a lesser extent, France, unsustainable tax cuts and spending sprees added to households' estimates of their private wealth relative to their wage income.

  

  Edmund Phelps
  • Wealth
  • Tax
  • France

• We see many who are struggling against adversity who are happy, and more although abounding in wealth, who are wretched.

  

  Tacitus
  • Happy
  • Wealth
  • Adversity

• Iraq has the most extensive petrochemical industry in the Middle East and a wealth of vaccine factories, single-cell protein research labs, medical and veterinary manufacturing centers and water treatment plants.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Single
  • Water
  • Wealth

• Right now I'm reading every fashion magazine I can find. As a shoe designer, I feel it's my responsibility to learn as much as I can about the business, past and present.

  

  Fergie The Black Eyed Peas
  • Business
  • Fashion
  • Responsibility

• But if I were to sum up who Barack Obama is and how he plans to meet this moment with one word, that word would be 'responsibility.' Responsibility to each other, our families, our communities, our country, and our world.

  

  Valerie Jarrett
  • Up
  • World
  • Country

• I am proud of the fact that my wealth is completely transparent.

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Proud
  • Wealth
  • Transparent

• It was my responsibility that this world got itself an atom bomb, because there were only a handful of nuclear physicists in the thirties - only a handful. And we were all beating the desk and saying 'How wonderful it will be if we discover atomic fission.'

  

  L. Ron Hubbard
  • World
  • Responsibility

• To me, the level of responsibility is measured by one's ability to confront the decision-making process without any delay or distraction.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Responsibility
  • Decision

• As CEO, I accept responsibility for the irregularities that have been found in diesel engines and have therefore requested the Supervisory Board to agree on terminating my function as CEO of the Volkswagen Group.

  

  Martin Winterkorn
  • Responsibility

• At the state level, we must take a careful look at what went wrong and make sure it never happens again. The buck stops here, and as your governor, I take full responsibility.

  

  Kathleen Blanco
  • Responsibility

• My first responsibility is to keep America safe.

  

  Jeff Fortenberry
  • America
  • Responsibility

• Great actors try to dismiss all ideas from their conscious mind in order to provide an experience that is real.

  

  Mark Rylance
  • Great
  • Mind
  • Real

• For a house to be successful, the objects in it must communicate with one another, respond to and balance one another

  

  Andree Putman
  • House
  • Communicate
  • Objects

• I couldn't have children, so that's the bad side. But compared to everything else I have, it's not all that terribly bad. I count my winners rather than my losers.

  

  Maeve Binchy
  • Children
  • Bad
  • Winners

• I don't want to be precious or weird . It's lovely to be recognized by people who like your work, and it's not as if I've done a Marvel movie. People say that with great power comes great responsibility, but it's more like shitty things will happen if you take certain jobs.

  

  Mackenzie Davis
  • People
  • Work
  • Great

• He that is robbed, not wanting what is stolen, him not know t, and he's not robbed at all.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Knows
  • Crime
  • Stolen

• In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private lives into public spectacles. If every private life is now potentially public property, it is because private property has undermined public responsibility.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Responsibility
  • Individual
  • Wealth