Quotes by : Terry Eagleton

Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination; if the United States is one of the....

Historical determinism is a recipe for political quietism.

One criticism of Freud still sometimes heard on the political Left is that his thinking is individualist....

Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding....

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

The most common mistake students of literature make is to go straight for what the poem or novel says,....

There is, in fact, no need to drag politics into literary theory: as with South African sport, it has....

[A] great deal of what we believe we do not know firsthand instead we have faith in the knowledge of....

... Capitalism will behave antisocially if it is profitable for it to do so, and that can now mean human....

If literature matters today, it is chiefly because it seems to many conventional critics one of the few....