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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.

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.

Umberto Eco
Religious, War, Blood
"The roots of conflict" by Umberto Eco, www.theguardian.com. October 13, 2001.

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.

Umberto Eco
Inspirational, Funny, War
Umberto Eco (1995). “Name of the Rose”, p.50, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

In short, Roberto privately concluded, if you would avoid wars, never make treaties of peace.

Umberto Eco
Peace, War, Treaties
Umberto Eco (2006). “The Island of the Day Before”, p.71, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I have to admit that I only read War and Peace when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.

Umberto Eco
War, Basics
"Umberto Eco: 'I'm a writer not a reader'" by Umberto Eco, www.theguardian.com. May 22, 2011.

The United States needed a civil war to unite properly.

Umberto Eco
War, United States, Needed
"Umberto Eco: 'It's culture, not war, that cements European identity'". Interview with Gianni Riotta - La Stampa, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2012.

With all of its defects, the global market makes war less likely, even between the USA and China.

Umberto Eco
War, China, Defects
"Umberto Eco: 'It's culture, not war, that cements European identity'". Interview with Gianni Riotta - La Stampa, www.theguardian.com. January 26, 2012.

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.

Umberto Eco
War, Fire, Flames

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