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Umberto Eco

"Once upon a time there were mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty party. Then there were the virtuous voices that accused the criminals. And Art (ah, what luck!) offered alternatives, for those who were not prisoners to the mass media.Well, it's all over. We have to start again from the beginning, asking one another what's going on."

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"Once upon a time there were mass media, and they were wicked, of course, and there was a guilty party. Then there were the virtuous voices that accused the criminals. And Art (ah, what luck!) offered alternatives, for those who were not prisoners to the mass media.Well, it's all over. We have to start again from the beginning, asking one another what's going on."

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Donna Grant

"Most peoples are prisoners of other people's thoughts."

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Donna Grant

"We...advance toward a state of society in which not only each man but every impulse in each man claims carte blanche."

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Donna Grant

"Women who don't like the rules change the rules."

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Donna Grant

"People are very busy; they are so busy that when they walk in the crowds they see no one, no one but themselves; they hear no voice, no voice but their own voice!"

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Donna Grant

"Probably the people on the street know better than the people at home."

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Donna Grant

"In a materialistic society, the dead body of a rich man's dog is regarded as a corpse; that of a poor man, a carcass."

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Donna Grant

"People on corporate conveyor belts, like animals in slaughter-chutes are all part of the same big massacre of joy."

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Donna Grant

"Poverty is like a crumb that sits at a table, and starves itself to death."

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Donna Grant

"The action or inaction of any government does not negate the Personal Responsibility of the citizens."

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Donna Grant

"If you have any hate in your heart, you will not be able to create a society that is just."

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Umberto Eco
"A monk should surely love his books with humility, wishing their good and not the glory of his own curiosity; but what the temptation of adultery is for laymen and the yearning for riches is for secular ecclesiastics, the seduction of knowledge is for monks."

Learning

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Umberto Eco
"The order that our mind imagines is like a net, or like a ladder, built to attain something. But afterward you must throw the ladder away, because you discover that, even if it was useful, it was meaningless."

Wisdom

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Umberto Eco
"But the purpose of a story is to teach and to please at once, and what it teaches is how to recognize the snares of the world."

Literature

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Umberto Eco
"The people of God cannot be changed until the outcasts are restored to its body."

Society

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Umberto Eco
"A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams."

Dream

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Umberto Eco
"In the Middle Ages, cathedrals and convents burned like tinder; imagining a medieval story without a fire is like imagining a World War II movie in the Pacific without a fighter plane shot down in flames."

History

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Umberto Eco
"The Internet gives us everything and forces us to filter it not by the workings of culture, but with our own brains. This risks creating six billion separate encyclopedias, which would prevent any common understanding whatsoever."

Technology

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Umberto Eco
"Perhaps the mission of those who love mankind is to make people laugh at the truth, to make truth laugh, because the only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth."

Love

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Umberto Eco
"There is no great sport in having bullets flying about one in every direction, but I find they have less horror when among them than when in anticipation."

Danger

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Umberto Eco
"And what would we be, we sinful creatures, without fear, perhaps the most foresighted, the most loving of the divine gifts?"

Religion

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