"Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual."

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"Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual."

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"My job is to look at what politics is doing, not be a politician myself."

"Fifty years after half a million gypsies were exterminated in the Second World War - thousands of them in Auschwitz - we're again preparing the mass killing of this minority."

"I claim the right to take a stand once in a while."

"Literature is my life of course, but from an ontological point of view. From an existential point of view, I like being a teacher."

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"In a novel, my feelings and sense of outrage can find a broader means of expression which would be more symbolic and applicable to many European countries."

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"A man should be just cultured enough to be able to look with suspicion upon culture at first, not second hand."

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"Americans have a penchant for the future and tend to disregard the past."

"Hatred is something peculiar. You will always find it strongest and most violent where there is the lowest degree of culture."

"In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future."

"Culture must have its ultimate aim in the metaphysical or it will cease to be culture."

"The rapprochement of peoples is only possible when differences of culture and outlook are respected and appreciated rather than feared and condemned, when the common bond of human dignity is recognized as the essential bond for a peaceful world."

"The relentless pressures of the so-called marketplace have distorted all our culture industries."

"Well, news is anything that's interesting, that relates to what's happening in the world, what's happening in areas of the culture that would be of interest to your audience."