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

• 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

• 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

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

  

  Nandan Nilekani
  • Proud
  • Wealth
  • Transparent

• 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

• 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

• Climate change is an economic, public health, and environmental issue that we have a moral responsibility to address.

  

  Brad Schneider
  • Health
  • Responsibility
  • Moral

• The most powerful nation on earth should be able to pass a fair, effective immigration law that combines compassion with responsibility and does not injure hard working Americans who are taxed up to here.

  

  Bill O'Reilly
  • Up
  • Earth
  • Law

• When you're at the lower levels in the organization, you need to win and be right. But as you move up, you need to let other people win and be right, and become a manager and delegate responsibility.

  

  Marshall Goldsmith
  • People
  • Up
  • Responsibility

• Non-fiction is a big responsibility. Rationality. Facts. The urgent need to reflect some small aspect of reality. But fiction is a private autism, a self-referential world in which the writer is omnipotent. Gravity, taxes, and death are mere options, subject to the writer's fancy.

  

  Katherine Dunn
  • World
  • Death
  • Reality

• It is our responsibility to find God in someone who is different from us. I think that God basically says, 'I created diversity on purpose, and it is your responsibility to figure out how to make it work.'

  

  Bruce Feiler
  • Work
  • God
  • Different

• It is an old adage that honesty is the best policy-this applies to public as well as private life-to States as well as individuals.

  

  George Washington
  • Leadership
  • Individual
  • Honesty

• Everything changes permantly. How boring if it wouldn't.

  

  Klaus Schulze Ash Ra Tempel

• I think anybody who's been a part of a kid's life, you hope that when they go out into the world, that they surround themselves with the right people and don't find themselves in trouble.

  

  Scooter Braun
  • People
  • World
  • Thinking

• When we say that prayer puts God to work, it is simply to say that man has it in his power by prayer to move God to work in His own way among men, in which way He would not work if prayer was not made.

  

  Edward McKendree Bounds
  • Work
  • God
  • Men

• 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