Umberto Eco: True Enemies and Weaker Opponents
“When your true enemies are too strong, you have to choose weaker enemies.”
Umberto Eco
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“Beauty is, in some way, boring” – Quote by Umberto Eco
“Beauty is, in some way, boring. Even if its concept changes through the ages… a beautiful object must always follow certain rules. A beautiful nose shouldn’t be longer than that or shorter than that, on the contrary, an ugly nose can be as long as the one of Pinocchio, or as big as the trunk of an elephant, or like the beak of an eagle, and so ugliness is unpredictable, and offers an infinite range of possibility. Beauty is finite, ugliness is infinite like God.”
Umberto Eco
“I Have Lost the Freedom” – Quote by Umberto Eco
“I have lost the freedom of not having an opinion.”
Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco on Faith, Humility, and Salvation
“The older I grow and the more I abandon myself to God’s will, the less I value intelligence that wants to know and will that wants to do; and as the only element of salvation I recognize faith, which can wait patiently, without asking too many questions.”
Umberto Eco
Brisk Talkers and Slow Thinkers – Jonathan Swift
“Brisk talkers are generally slow thinkers.”
Jonathan Swift
Noam Chomsky on Sustained Resistance
“If you go to one demonstration and then go home, that’s something, but the people in power can live with that. What they can’t live with is sustained pressure that keeps building, organisations that keep doing things, people that keep learning lessons from the last time and doing it better the next time.”
Noam Chomsky
Quote on International Terrorism by Noam Chomsky
“The United States happens to be the only state in the world that has been condemned by the World Court for international terrorism.”
Noam Chomsky
“It Teaches You Too Much” – Quote by Noam Chomsky
“There’s a good reason why nobody studies history, it just teaches you too much.”
Noam Chomsky
State Capitalism and Privatized Profit – Noam Chomsky
“A basic principle of modern state capitalism is that costs and risks are socialized to the extent possible, while profit is privatized.”
Noam Chomsky
Perception and Morality by Walter Lippmann
“Since my moral system rests on my accepted version of the facts, he who denies my moral judgments or my version of the facts, is to me perverse, alien, dangerous. How shall I account for him? The opponent has always to be explained, and the last explanation that we ever look for is that he sees a different set of facts. Such an explanation we avoid, because it saps the very foundation of our own assurance that we have seen life steadily and seen it whole.”
Walter Lippmann