Eco sees the intellectual as an organizer of culture, someone who can run a magazine or a museum. An administrator, in fact. I think this is a melancholy situation for an intellectual.
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I claim the right to take a stand once in a while.Antonio Tabucchi
I don't know whether these people are going to find themselves, but as they live their lives they have no choice but to face up to the image others have of them. They're forced to look at themselves in a mirror, and they often manage to glimpse something of themselves.
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Perfection spawns doctrines, dictators and totalitarian ideas.
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Xenophobia manifests itself especially against civilizations and cultures that are weak because they lack economic resources, means of subsistence or land. So nomadic people are the first targets of this kind of aggression.
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There are some fundamental values it's impossible to be wrong about.
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It's very useful when politicians have doubts because there are so many choices to be made in the world.
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