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The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith.

The conversion of agnostic High Tories to the Anglican church is always rather suspect. It seems too pat and predictable, too clearly a matter of politics rather than faith.

Terry Eagleton
Church, Matter, Agnostic

Ideology... is a kind of contemporary mythology, a realm which has purged itself of ambiguity and alternative possibility.

Terry Eagleton
Alternatives, Kind, Possibility
Terry Eagleton (2011). “Literary Theory: An Introduction”, p.117, John Wiley & Sons

Man eternally tries to get back to an organic past that has slipped just beyond his reach.

Terry Eagleton
Past, Men, Trying

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
Long, Different, Actors

Those who sentimentally indulge humanity do it no favours.

Terry Eagleton
Humanity, Favour, Indulge

What persuades men and women to mistake each other from time to time for gods or vermin is ideology. One can understand well enough how human beings may struggle and murder for good material reasons - reasons connected, for instance, with their physical survival. It is much harder to grasp how they may come to do so in the name of something as apparently abstract as ideas. Yet ideas are what men and women live by, and will occasionally die for.

Terry Eagleton
Mistake, Struggle, Men
Terry Eagleton (1991). “Ideology: An Introduction”, p.13, Verso

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