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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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Imagine someone holding forth on biology whose only knowledge of the subject is The Book of British Birds, and you have a rough idea of what it feels like to read Richard Dawkins on theology. – 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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When I was in the war, I was lucky that I was in a plane and never saw the carnage close-up. – George McGovern

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A soldier will fight long and hard for a bit of colored ribbon. – Napoleon

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As a soldier, I survived World War I when most of my comrades did not. – Lester B. Pearson

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If we stick together as an American people we can bring down the war criminals that are running our country right now. – Cindy Sheehan

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