Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes

The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.

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• One's past is what one is. It is the only way by which people should be judged.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • People
  • Past
  • Should

• We should revoke passports from any Americans or dual citizens who are fighting with ISIS.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Fighting
  • Should
  • Citizens

• I am paid to dive deeper into my own humanity and do that with other people in collaboration... so that, in and of itself, I just feel like is the greatest privilege in the world.

  

  Gaby Hoffmann
  • People
  • World
  • Humanity

• The very name 'Manson' has become a metaphor for evil... He has come to represent the dark and malignant side of humanity, and for whatever reason, there is a side of human nature that is fascinated with ultimate evil.

  

  Vincent Bugliosi
  • Nature
  • Evil
  • Dark

• A realistic view of humanity will stop the proliferation of impossible injunctions.

  

  Abdolkarim Soroush
  • Stop
  • Humanity
  • Impossible

• I was gonna work in a university, but no one was hiring.

  

  Washed Out
  • Work
  • University
  • Hiring

• Or from Browning some 'Pomegranate,' which, if cut deep down the middle,shows a heart within blood-tinctured of a veined humanity.

  

  Elizabeth Barrett Browning
  • Heart
  • Humanity
  • Deep

• The great moral teachers of humanity were, in a way, artistic geniuses in the art of living.

  

  Albert Einstein
  • Great
  • Humanity
  • Moral

• The movement for black lives isn't just about black people. Black liberation has never just been about black people. It's been about a fight for our humanity, for our dignity.

  

  Patrisse Cullors
  • People
  • Black
  • Humanity

• The right of each individual in any relation to secure to himself the full benefits of his intelligence, his capacity, his industry and skill are among the inalienable inheritances of humanity.

  

  Leland Stanford
  • Humanity

• If you can capture the humanity of a family struggling in an economic crisis you can make a difference. You can raise awareness just of the simple humanity.

  

  Emily Blunt
  • Family
  • Simple
  • Humanity

• Great conversations always spark in a genuine interest to recognize and know the other person's story and, therefore, recognizing and understanding and celebrating their humanity.

  

  Janet Mock
  • Great
  • Understanding
  • Humanity

• The Olympic Games are the quadrennial celebration of the springtime of humanity.

  

  Pierre de Coubertin
  • Humanity
  • Celebration

• Humanity is actually under the control of dinosaur-like alien reptiles called the Babylon Brotherhood who must consume human blood to maintain their human appearance.

  

  David Icke
  • Control
  • Humanity
  • Alien

• Probably all the books I've ever written have been efforts to define the boundaries of humanity.

  

  Fred Saberhagen
  • Humanity

• The clarification of equilibrium through plastic art is of great importance for humanity. It reveals that although human life in time is doomed to disequilibrium, notwithstanding this, it is based on equilibrium. It demonstrates that equilibrium can become more and more living in us.

  

  Piet Mondrian
  • Life
  • Time
  • Great

• For the continued survival of our planet and humanity, it is crucial that certain discoveries and skills and inventions made by people over the years be passed on from one human generation to the next, from one person, face-to-face, to another.

  

  Chris Raschka
  • People
  • Humanity
  • Survival

• Black people, we are fully deserving of the room and space to fully express our humanity. This is what Black Lives Matter is truly about.

  

  Opal Tometi
  • People
  • Black
  • Space

• People suck, and that's my contention. I can prove it on a scratch paper and pen. Give me a fucking Etch-a-sketch, I'll do it in three minutes. The proof, the fact, the factorum. I'll show my work, case closed. I'm tired of this back-slapping 'Aren't humanity neat?' bullshit. We're a virus with shoes, okay? That's all we are.

  

  Bill Hicks
  • People
  • Work
  • Humanity

• I think some people feel that if you are going to have 3D, then you have to shoot in 3D, but they shoot 3D, so of course they're going to say 'my way of doing a film is better.' I'm not telling anyone how they should do their film, so why should anyone tell me how I should do mine?

  

  Michel Gondry
  • People
  • Film
  • Feels

• We had principles in mathematics that were granted to be absolute in mathematics for over 800 years, but new science has gotten rid of those absolutism, gotten - forward other different logics of looking at mathematics, and sort of turned the way we look at it as a science altogether after 800 years.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • Different
  • Science

• Jazz music should be inclusive. Smooth jazz to me rules out a certain kind of drama and a certain tension that I think all music needs. Especially jazz music, since improvising is one of the cornerstones of what jazz is. And when you smooth it out, you take all the drama out of it.

  

  David Sanborn
  • Music
  • Drama

• 'Did Nelson ever tell you the story,' Pru asks Annabelle, 'how he lost the agency up his nose?'

  

  John Updike
  • Up
  • Lost

• The humanities should constitute the core of any university worth the name.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • Humanity
  • Should
  • Names