241 Quotes by Terry Eagleton

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

Man eternally tries to get back to an organic past that has slipped just beyond his reach.

Scratch a schoolboy and you find a savage.

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

It is false to believe that the sun revolves around the earth, but it is not absurd.

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

The government spokesman announces that there is no truth in the charges of widespread corruption within the Cabinet; nobody believes him; he knows that nobody believes him, we know that he knows it, and he knows it too.

It is silly to call fat people ''gravitationally challenged'' - a self-righteous fetishism of language which is no more than a symptom of political frustration.

Works of art cannot save us. They can simply render us more sensitive to what needs to be repaired.