"When someone has to intervene to defend the……" — Umberto Eco
"When someone has to intervene to defend the liberty of the press, that society is sick."
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275 Quotes by Umberto Eco
Umberto Eco has 275 quotes on this site.
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Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.
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The Art of the Romance, though warning us that it is providing fictions, opens a door into the Palace of…
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In the construction of Immortal Fame you need first of all a cosmic shamelessness.
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If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third…
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The pleasures of love are pains that become desirable, where sweetness and torment blend, and so love is voluntary insanity,…
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The ideology of this America wants to establish reassurance through Imitation. But profit defeats ideology, because the consumers want to…
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The postmodern reply to the modern consists of recognizing that the past, since it cannot really be destroyed, because its…
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Every great thinker is someone else's moron.
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When all the archetypes burst out shamelessly, we plumb the depths of Homeric profundity. Two clichés make us laugh but…
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There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.
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American coffee can be a pale solution served at a temperature of 100oC
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There is a constant in the average American imagination and taste, for which the past must be preserved and celebrated…
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More Defend Quotes
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one of 1,167 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going…
— Alexis Arguello
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We get information in the mail, the regular postal mail, encrypted or not, vet it like a regular news organization,…
— Julian Assange
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A patriot must always be ready to defend his country against his government.
— Edward Abbey
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No matter whether it's someone from the political left or right, we just need a voice to stand up and…
— Brigitte Bardot
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Patriarchy is a bully notion, which if you will notice never attacks a nation that can defend itself. Zionism is…
— Roseanne Barr
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There is not a single Muslim leader today who has the courage and commitment to defend Islam and Muslims, they…
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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Each of us has a natural right, from God, to defend his person, his liberty, and his property.
— Frederic Bastiat
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The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is…
— Samuel Adams
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Among the natural rights of the colonists are these: First a right to life, secondly to liberty, and thirdly to…
— Samuel Adams
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You can't defend the indefensible - anything you say sounds self-serving and hypocritical.
— Diane Abbott
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The proud do not change to improve, but defend their position by rationalizing. Repentance means change, and it takes a…
— Ezra Taft Benson
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This resolution simply says Israel has the right to defend itself. This includes conducting operations both inside its borders and…
— John Boehner
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