Terry Eagleton (Terence Francis "Terry" Eagleton) Quotes

One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies.

Terry Eagleton

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• In the quiet moments, the discoveries are made.

  

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• That's why I love doing television because it's something that fans and viewers can sit down each week and get to know your character and get to know the show and get to know what's going on and fall in love with you all over again, like they did in previous shows.

  

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• Let's set aside political gamesmanship and work together for the sake of our children.

  

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• In design as in life, smart can also mean wise, kind, inspiring - and cost-effective. And that has a charm all its own.

  

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• Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.

  

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• I don't know what's better gettin' laid or gettin' paid.

  

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• To read a poem is to hear it with our eyes; to hear it is to see it with our ears.

  

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• I have a 10,000-year-old brain and the boogers of a 7-year-old. That's how I describe myself.' (Piers Morgan Tonight)

  

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• It is heroic to prepare for war with a tyrant power. Patriots will always win the admiration of mankind for daring to meet the bloodshed of battle for their country's liberty. But the patriot who is willing to go to that sacrifice will be the first to condemn the aimless and secret shedding of blood in time of peace.

  

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• No one has ever proved that a human being, through his descent from a certain group of people, must of necessity have certain mental characteristics.

  

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• One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis of liberalism. This is not only a question of alarmingly illiberal legislation, but a more general problem of how the liberal state deals with its anti-liberal enemies.

  

  Terry Eagleton
  • War
  • Problem
  • Crisis