Terry Eagleton Short Quotes

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It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures.

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History works itself out by an inevitable internal logic.

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Ivory towers are as rare as bowling alleys in tribal cultures.

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Socialism is the completion of democracy, not the negation of it.

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All desire springs from a lack, which it strives continually to fill.

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It is difficult to think of an origin without wanting to go back beyond it.

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Schizophrenic language has in this sense an interesting resemblance to poetry.

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When one emphasizes, as Jacques Derrida once remarked, one always overemphasizes.

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Deconstruction... insists not that truth is illusory but that it is institutional.

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Like all the best radical positions, then, mine is a thoroughly traditionalist one.

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When it comes to who exactly should be exploited, the system is admirably egalitarian.

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If the masses are not thrown a few novels, they may react by throwing up a few barricades.

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There seems to be something in humanity which will not bow meekly to the insolence of power.

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Any attempt to define literary theory in terms of a distinctive method is doomed to failure.

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Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of... revolutionary avant-gardism.

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You can tell that the capitalist system is in trouble when people start talking about capitalism.

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What perished in the Soviet Union was Marxist only in the sense that the Inquisition was Christian

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The truth is that the past exists no more than the future, even though it feels as though it does.

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Chaucer was a class traitor
Shakespeare hated the mob
Donne sold out a bit later
Sidney was a nob.

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If we were not called upon to work in order to survive, we might simply lie around all day doing nothing.

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Language always pre-exists us: it is always already 'in place', waiting to assign us our places within it.

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The liberal state is neutral between capitalism and its critics until the critics look like they are winning.

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It is language which speaks in literature, in all its swarming 'polysemic' plurality, not the author himself.

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After all, if you do not resist the apparently inevitable, you will never know how inevitable the inevitable was.

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As far as belief goes, postmodernism prefers to travel light: it has beliefs, to be sure, but it does not have faith

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If it is true that we need a degree of certainty to get by, it is also true that too much of the stuff can be lethal.

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Reading a text is more like tracing this process of constant flickering than it is like counting the beads on a necklace.

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All consciousness is consciousness of something: in thinking I am aware that my thought is 'pointing towards' some object.

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Being brought up in a culture is a matter of learning appropriate forms of feeling as much as particular ways of thinking.

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Capitalism cannot survive without a working class, while the working class can flourish a lot more freely without capitalism.

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