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

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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

• 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

• Japan had an energy crisis. I thought, instead of just worrying about it, I should take some kind of responsibility to provide the solutions.

  

  Masayoshi Son
  • Energy
  • Responsibility

• Girls are taught to sing high and pretty, like Antony, not low and from the guts like Nina Simone. But we're slowly trying to change that. There are so many things we're not told growing up, and it's our true feminist responsibility to take the truth to the people who need to hear it.

  

  Mary Beth Patterson
  • People
  • Up
  • Trying

• The duty of responsibility placed on any MP is one of the greatest honours that can be bestowed and I for one don't believe the Conservative Party would abuse that trust by selecting someone who did not have the goods to do the job, just for the sake of media coverage.

  

  Adam Rickitt
  • Believe
  • Job
  • Party

• And when a leader embraces their responsibility to care for people instead of caring for numbers, then people will follow, solve problems and see to it that that leader’s vision comes to life the right way, a stable way and not the expedient way.

  

  Simon Sinek
  • People
  • Problem
  • Responsibility

• The more successful Navy SEALs there are, the more glory it reflects on the community and the better it is for our country.

  

  Eric Greitens
  • Community
  • Glory
  • Reflects

• Life is a cutup. And to pretend that you write or paint in a timeless vacuum is just simply . . . not . . . true, not in accord with the facts of human perception.

  

  William S. Burroughs
  • Writing
  • Perception
  • Paint

• 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