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Terry Eagleton Quotes

English - Critic | February 22, 1943 -

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

Sick Joke Things Revolutionary Other

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

Truth Truth Is Deconstruction Insists

The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith.

Faith Politics Church Matter High

Evil is unintelligible. It is just a thing in itself, like boarding a crowded commuter train wearing only a giant boa constrictor. There is no context which would make it explicable.

Evil Train Context Only Just Would

Evil is often supposed to be without rhyme or reason.

Evil Reason Without Rhyme Supposed

It is true that some liberals and humanists, along with the laid-back Danes, deny the existence of evil. This is largely because they regard the word 'evil' as a device for demonising those who are really nothing more than socially unfortunate.

Evil True Nothing More Existence

The German philosopher Walter Benjamin had the curious notion that we could change the past. For most of us, the past is fixed while the future is open.

Change Future Past Curious Open Us

There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine. It is a peculiar feature of human actions that, once performed, they can never be recuperated. What is true of the past will always be true of it.

Great Past Be True True Way Never

Today, nostalgia is almost as unacceptable as racism.

Today Racism Nostalgia Almost

Nations sometimes flourish by denying the crimes that brought them into being. Only when the original invasion, occupation, extermination or usurpation has been safely thrust into the political unconscious can sovereignty feel secure.

Feel Political Sometimes Sovereignty

Like the rest of us, Tom Paulin is a bundle of contradictions. At its finest, his work is brave, adventurous, original and wonderfully idiosyncratic.

Work Brave Rest Adventurous Original

The role of the intellectual, so it is said, is to speak truth to power. Noam Chomsky has dismissed this pious tag on two grounds. For one thing, power knows the truth already; it is just busy trying to conceal it. For another, it is not those in power who need the truth, but those they oppress.

Truth Power Speak Busy Trying Said

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