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Not long ago, if you wanted to seize political power in a country you had merely to control the army and the police. Today it is only in the most backward countries that fascist generals, in carrying out a coup d'état, still use tanks. If a country has reached a high degree of industrialization the whole scene changes.... Today a country belongs to the person who controls communications.
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More Quotes by Umberto Eco
Love is wiser than wisdom.
Every great thinker is someone else's moron.
Books are not made to be believed, but to be subjected to inquiry. When we consider a book, we mustn't ask ourselves what it says but what it means.
The function of memory is not only to preserve, but also to throw away. If you remembered everything from your entire life, you would be sick.
The wise man does not discriminate; he gathers all the shreds of light, from wherever they may come.
Poetry is not a matter of feelings, it is a matter of language. It is language which creates feelings.
To survive, you must tell stories.
I have come to believe that the whole world is an enigma, a harmless enigma that is made terrible by our own mad attempt to interpret it as though it had an underlying truth.
Never affirm, always allude: allusions are made to test the spirit and probe the heart.
I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at odd moments, when they aren't trying to teach us. We are formed by little scraps of wisdom.
