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

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Irish fiction is full of secrets, guilty pasts, divided identities. It is no wonder that there is such a rich tradition of Gothic writing in a nation so haunted by history. – Terry Eagleton

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Poetry is the most subtle of the literary arts, and students grow more ingenious by the year at avoiding it. If they can nip around Milton, duck under Blake and collapse gratefully into the arms of Jane Austen, a lot of them will. – Terry Eagleton

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Most poetry in the modern age has retreated to the private sphere, turning its back on the political realm. – Terry Eagleton

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The draft is white people sending black people to fight yellow people to protect the country they stole from red people. – Gerome Gragni and James Rado, 1967

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Dress it as we may, feather it, daub it with gold, huzza it, and sing swaggering songs about it, what is war, nine times out of ten, but murder in uniform? – Douglas Jerrold

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What we want to do is reform the welfare system in the way that Tony Blair talked about 13 years ago but never achieved – a system that was created for the days after the Second World War. That prize is now I think achievable. – Iain Duncan Smith

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War does not determine who is right – only who is left. – Bertrand Russell

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Man is an idea, and a precious small idea once he turns his back on love. – Albert Camus

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