Terry Eagleton

“Postmodernism is the contemporary name for the crisis of the Enlightenment project.”

“To be a revolutionary, you have to be a romantic.”

“The intellectual is a person who has discovered something more interesting than sex.”

“In a world of soundbites, a genuine argument is a revolutionary act.”

“Humour is the closest that we can get to grace.”

“Ideology is not just a matter of 'ideas'; it is a matter of lived, everyday social experience.”

“Hope is a verb with its sleeves rolled up.”

“The only 'decent' people are the ones who are aware of their own indecency.”

“History is not a toboggan-slide to freedom; or if it is, it's a slide with several inconveniently placed bumps.”

“Culture is a way of struggling for power.”

“The function of criticism is to keep culture honest.”

“Meaning is a matter of doing, not of seeing.”

“All art is a form of artifice.”

“The aesthete is a revolutionary, but a revolutionary who has chosen to go on strike.”

“If you don't know your own history, you are a child.”

“Tragedy is not an affair of sordid private murders and adulteries. It is a conflict of powers.”

“A sense of humor is a sense of proportion.”

“Capitalism is the most dynamic, revolutionary and transformative system that history has ever known.”

“A work of art is a piece of reality that has been transformed by the imagination.”