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“All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly deconstructive. 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.”

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Terry Eagleton

Terry Eagleton is a renowned British literary critic, known for his research on Marxist literary theory. His work spans a wide range of literary and theoretical topics, influencing cultural studies and political commentary as well. more

“Readers are less and less seen as mere non-writers, the subhuman "other" or flawed derivative of the author; the lack of a pen is no longer a shameful mark of secondary status but a positively enabling space, just as within every writer can be seen to lurk, as a repressed but contaminating antithesis, a reader.”

Book Reading Space Reader Mark Mere Pens Flawed Positively Shameful Enabling Repressed Derivatives Antithesis

Author:Terry Eagleton

“In the end, it is because the media are driven by the power and wealth of private individuals that they turn private lives into public spectacles. If every private life is now potentially public property, it is because private property has undermined public responsibility.”

Ifs Ends Life Is Turns Individual Wealth Responsibility Media Property Driven Private Life Private Property Spectacles

Author:Terry Eagleton

“People do evil things because they are evil. Some people are evil in the way that some things are coloured indigo. They commit their evil deeds not to achieve some goal, but just because of the sort of people they are.”

People Way Evil Goal Achieve Deeds Commit Evil Things Indigo

Book:On Evil

Source: On Evil

“Those who sentimentally indulge humanity do it no favours.”

Humanity Favour Indulge