Quote by Terry Eagleton
One side-effect of the so-called war on terror has been a crisis o

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

Other quotes by Terry Eagleton

With fiction, you can talk about plot, character and narrative, whereas a poem brings home the fact that everything that happens in a work of literature happens in terms of language. And this is daunting stuff to deal with. – Terry Eagleton

Category:
Home
Read Quote

For the liberal state to accommodate a diversity of beliefs while having few positive convictions is one of the more admirable achievements of civilization. – Terry Eagleton

Category:
positive
Read Quote

Cynicism and naivety lie cheek by jowl in the American imagination if the United States is one of the most venal nations on Earth, it is also one of the most earnestly idealistic. – Terry Eagleton

Category:
Imagination
Read Quote
Other Quotes from
War
category

What this planet needs is more mistletoe and less missile-talk. – Author Unknown

Category:
War

The British Red Cross asked me to help them spearhead a fundraising campaign for the victims of the war in Nicaragua. It was a turning point in my life. It began my commitment to justice and human rights issues. – Bianca Jagger

Category:
War

It takes twenty years or more of peace to make a man; it takes only twenty seconds of war to destroy him. – Baudouin I

Category:
War

Throughout the 20th century, the Republican Party benefited from a non-interventionist foreign policy. Think of how Eisenhower came in to stop the Korean War. Think of how Nixon was elected to stop the mess in Vietnam. – Ron Paul

Category:
War

Random Quotes

Im a positive person, and I try to look at the good side of everything. – Leona Lewis

Category:
positive

Who would dare assign to art the sterile function of imitating nature? – Charles Baudelaire

Category:
Art

Were seeing quite a lot of people who really would like a return to class-based politics. – Patricia Hewitt

Category:
Politics

All sports must be treated on the basis of equality. – Pierre de Coubertin

Category:
Equality