“He Who Falls in Love in Bars” – Quote by Umberto Eco
“He who falls in love in bars doesn’t need a woman all his own. He can always find one on loan.”
Umberto Eco
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Umberto Eco on Love and Poetry – Quote
“When the poet is in love, he is incapable of writing poetry on love. He has to write when he remembers that he was in love.”
Umberto Eco
“Love flourishes in expectation” – Quote by Umberto Eco
“Love flourishes in expectation. Expectation strolls through the spacious fields of Time towards Opportunity.”
Umberto Eco
“A Good Book Is More Intelligent” – Quote by Umberto Eco
“I always assume that a good book is more intelligent than its author. It can say things that the writer is not aware of.”
Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco on Dan Brown and Foucault’s Pendulum
“Dan Brown, is a character from Foucault’s Pendulum! I invented him. He shares my characters’ fascinations – the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist.”
Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco on Death, Experience, and Creative Work
“The thought that all experience will be lost at the moment of my death makes me feel pain and fear… What a waste, decades spent building up experience, only to throw it all away… We remedy this sadness by working. For example, by writing, painting, or building cities.”
Umberto Eco
Mind Control and Manipulation in Democracy – Edward Bernays
“We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes formed, our ideas suggested, largely by men we have never heard of. This is a logical result of the way in which our democratic society is organized. Vast numbers of human beings must cooperate in this manner if they are to live together as a smoothly functioning society.”
Edward Bernays
“Free Inside Under a Dictatorship?” – Quote by George Orwell
“The fallacy is to believe that under a dictatorial government you can be free inside”
George Orwell
Murray Rothbard on the Fed, Money Creation, and Bank Deposits
“At the base of the Fed pyramid, and therefore of the bank system’s creation of “money” in the sense of deposits, is the Fed’s power to print legal tender money. But the Fed tries its best not to print cash but rather to “print” or create demand deposits, checking deposits, out of thin air, since its demand deposits constitute the reserves on top of which the commercial banks can pyramid a multiple creation of bank deposits, or “checkbook money.””
Murray Rothbard
Ivan Illich on Development and Underdevelopment
“The goals of development are always and everywhere stated in terms of consumer value packages standardized around the North Atlantic-and therefore always and everywhere imply more privileges for a few… Underdevelopment is the result of a state of mind common to both socialist and capitalist countries. Present development goals are neither desirable nor reasonable. Unfortunately antiimperialism is no antidote.”
Ivan Illich