Terry Eagleton : (5)

" I attacked Dawkins’s book on God because I think he is theologically illiterate. " - Terry Eagleton

" You’ve got to have a sense of different audiences. I’m a kind of performer manque – I come from a long line of failed actors! " - Terry Eagleton

" The role of the intellectual, so it is said, is to speak truth to power. Noam Chomsky has dismissed this pious tag on two grounds. For one thing, power knows the truth already; it is just busy trying to conceal it. For another, it is not those in power who need the truth, but those they oppress. " - Terry Eagleton

" The frontier between public and private shifts from time to time and culture to culture. " - Terry Eagleton

" 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