5 Quotes by Umberto Eco about war
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After so many years even the fire of passion dies, and with it what was believed the light of the truth. Who of us is able to say now whether Hector or Achilles was right, Agamemnon or Priam, when they fought over the beauty of a woman who is now dust and ashes?
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Во всех войнах, известных истории, народ, полагая свою войну праведной, горел желанием уничтожить врага. Теперь же безграничная информация не только расшатывает идеологию граждан, но и делает их уязвимыми пред видом страдания противника: смерть врага перестает быть далеким и неясным событием, а превращается в конкретное и совершенно непереносимое зрелище.
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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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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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With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the U.S.A. and China.
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