Terry Eagleton

"History works itself out by an inevitable internal logic."

"Cultural theory as we have it promises to grapple with some fundamental problems, but on the whole fails to deliver. It has been shamefaced about morality and metaphysics, embarrassed about love, biol…"

"All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly deconstructive. For if the complex can be put into the simple, then it cannot be as com…"

"The truth is that the past exists no more than the future, even though it feels as though it does."

"Writing seems to rob me of my being: it is a second hand mode of communication, a pallid, mechanical transcript of speech, and so always at one remove from my consciousness."

"If we were not called upon to work in order to survive, we might simply lie around all day doing nothing."

"It is capitalism, not Marxism, that trades in futures."

"In some traditionalist universities not long ago, you could not research on authors who were still alive. This was a great incentive to slip a knife between their ribs one foggy evening, or a remarkab…"