Terry Eagleton quoteTerry Eagleton [1943-0]
English Critic 
Quote rank: 103
| The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of this Anglo-Saxon distaste for highbrows and eggheads was the French revolution, which was seen as an attempt to reconstruct society on the basis of abstract rational principles. |
Society
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