Umberto Eco Quotes About War
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All the religious wars that have caused blood to be shed for centuries arise from passionate feelings and facile counter-positions, such as Us and Them, good and bad, white and black.
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With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China.
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A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.
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In the Middle Ages, cathendrals 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.
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In short, Roberto privately concluded, if you would avoid wars, never make treaties of peace.
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The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.
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I have to admit that I only read War and Peace when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.
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