Quotes by Eagleton, Terry

Postmodernism is among other things a sick joke at the expense of revo >>

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Literature transforms and intensifies ordinary language, deviates syst >>

Quotations about Propaganda

The current flows fast and furious. It issues in a spate of words from >>

Propaganda is a soft weapon; hold it in your hands too long, and it wi >>

The most dangerous untruths are truths slightly distorted. >>

All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly not constructive. For if the complex can be put into the simple, then it cannot be as complex as it seemed in the first place; and if the simple can be an adequate medium of such complexity, then it cannot after all be as simple as all that.

Eagleton, Terry