Terry Eagleton Quotes

I don't think I'm alarmist. I'm more disappointed by the euphemisms in some instances than outright bigotry. Now, to me, you walk around with a Klan hat on or you've got a swastika on you arm, you just look like a dope, you know what I mean?

The world wasn't a more tolerant place when I was a young man. Rather, they simply sidestepped all the issues.

In a world filled with hate, prejudice, and protest, I find that I too am filled with hate, prejudice, and protest.

Nobody wants to be seen with a bigot.

I tell the truth and they call me a fascist, a racist, an ugly, dirty, nasty, xenophobic populist.

Unfortunately, in this country, when we have the opportunity to be bigots in private, we take it every time.

I think nostalgia used purely for the sake of emotional reminiscing is extremely boring.

I don't think as a society, as a nation we would ever wear swastikas openly again, but aligning ourselves with the kind of rhetoric or the the the kind of language that's being used and ascribed to certain groups of people or certain religions can be repeated.

You'll call me damned Jew, a Christ murderer, a secret worshipper of pigs and a kidnapper of Christian children. How absurd! Who would want to kidnap children, Christian or otherwise? Vile things. The only mercy of children is that they grow up, as my son has but then, tragically, they beget more children. We do not learn life's lessons.

Hate demands existence, and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behaviors; in a sense, he has to become hate. That is why the Americans have substituted discrimination for lynching.

Demagogues like [Donald] Trump come along. He says I know what the cause is. Remember, later, the cause was that Mexicans who are coming to this country, well, they were criminals or rapists. Now it is Muslims.

The Jew haters and white supremacists…all they do is fight with each other all day too.

What would a racist call werewolves? Wargs? She kind of liked that one, but suspected that racist bastards didn't read Tolkien.

I don't want to see kids in America being scared because they're hearing people on television and the radio saying really ugly xenophobic and racist things.

The very nature of the Chinaman holds him back. If his fellow should fall, John thinks it quite proper that he stamp on the underdogs face.

Race, Religion, Ethnic Pride, Nationalism does nothing but teach you how to hate people you have never met

Last September 16th, I was walking in downtown Seattle when this pick-up truck pulls up in front of me. Guy leans out the window and yells, "Go back to your own country," and I was laughing so hard because it wasn't so much a hate crime as a crime of irony.

We still have too many Americans who give in to their fears of those who are different from them. Not so long ago, swastikas were painted on the doors of some African-American members of our Special Forces at Ft. Bragg. They are special forces. They do not deserve to have swastikas on their doors.

The horrifying thing is that nearly half of America seems in synch with xenophobia and race-baiting.

The one thing that the racist can never manage is anything like discrimination: he is indiscriminate by definition.

Some people think racism is if you say the n-word, so homophobia is if you call someone...

To call someone 'anti-American', indeed, to be anti-American, is not just racist, it's a failure of the imagination.

You have to be taught to hate.

Of all the bigotries that savage the human temper there is none so stupid as the anti-Semitic.

I would say that, you know, being Jewish, what has been most significant in my life is understanding what a Hitler - what horrible politics can mean to people and I think that's been one of the motivating factors in my life in fighting against racism and bigotry of all kinds because when it gets out of hand, as we have seen and we are, you know - it's obviously has unbelievable repercussions.