Terry Eagleton Quotes

Whether the state be Marxist or capitalist, it makes no difference. The dominant ideology is that of sovereignty.

Unlike President Obama, President Nixon was a capitalist who did not believe in 'remaking' the very character of America.

The government may change faces from time to time, but it's not like we fight wars for democracy - we fight wars for capitalism and for oil.

American capitalism has helped finance the communist takeover of the world. Somebody is going to answer to God for this

Under capitalism we have a state in the proper sense of the word, that is, a special machine for the suppression of one class by another.

We must take from the right nationalism without capitalism and from the left socialism without internationalism.

I am not a socialist.

A Whig is properly what is called a Trimmer - that is, a coward to both sides of the question, who dare not be a knave nor an honest man, but is a sort of whiffing, shuffling, cunning, silly, contemptible, unmeaning negation of the two.

Our government is a bird with two right wings... They're devoted to the perpetuation & spread of corporate capitalism.

An unjust world represented as harmonious is a political position.

If you look at capitalism and patriarchy, they're both such hierarchical, competitive, oneupmanship systems. They've trained us all [to think] that power means having all the goods or having the most money or having the most attention or having the most fame. That's not the power that interests me. Actually, the deconstruction of that power is what interests me.

I'm by no means convinced that capitalism and the development of technology has made anarchism easier.

... If Mr. Kennedy does not like Socialism, we do not like imperialism. We do not like Capitalism.

I am a conservative. Quite possibly I am on the losing side; often I think so. Yet, out of a curious perversity I had rather lose with Socrates, let us say, than win with Lenin.

Liberalism is just Communism sold by the drink.

Fact is Our Lord knew all about the power of money: He gave capitalism a tiny niche in His scheme of things, He gave it a chance, He even provided a first installment of funds. Can you beat that? It's so magnificent. God despises nothing. After all, if the deal had come off, Judas would probably have endowed sanatoriums, hospitals, public libraries or laboratories.

When you say 'state' you mean 'national.' National Socialism. That is what Mussolini and Hitler did. National Socialism. State Capitalism. They've changed the name.

We're not a socialist country, because the socialists believe in government ownership in the means of production, but the fascists believe that the government should have private ownership and the politicians should tell people how to run the businesses. So that's the route we seem to be going.

Socialists don't like ordinary people choosing, for they might not choose Socialism.

If the Russians claim they are Socialist, this is just, I would say, a lie. They have no socialism at all. They have what I would call a state capitalism.

I certainly think the free-market has failed.

Democratic capitalism: A cooperative enterprise to earn enough money to buy enough Congressional influence to gain control over the government's guns so as to get even more money for your special-interest group.Social democratic capitalism: A cooperative enterprise to promise sufficient government benefits to enough voters to gain control over the government's guns so as to keep any other special-interest group from getting as much power as yours.

While communism is the control of business by government, fascism is the control of government by business.

Democracy is impossible in a capitalist system. Capitalism is the realm of injustice and a tyranny of the richest against the poorest.

The broad liberal objective is a balanced and flexible "mixed economy," thus seeking to occupy that middle ground between capitalism and socialism whose viability has so long been denied by both capitalists and socialists.