Umberto Eco Quotes
For the enemy to be recognized and feared, he has to be in your home or on your doorstep.
Eco, Umberto. Inventing the Enemy and Other Occasional Writings. Translated by Richard Dixon, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2012.
She was responding to the moderator who introduced her stating that perhaps she would become the first President of the new Iraq government. Her response was given with a smile and she was half joking and half serious. See {618434}.
Cunningham was part of an American Diplomatic Delegation negotiating with the Vietnamese. He had been an Naval Ace Fighter Pilot during the Vietnam War. He was notorious for his lack of tact.
Umberto Eco OMRI was an Italian medievalist, philosopher, semiotician, cultural critic, political and social commentator, and novelist. In English, he is best known for his popular 1980 novel The Name of the Rose, a historical mystery combining semiotics in fiction with biblical analysis, medieval studies, and literary theory, and Foucault's Pendulum, his 1988 novel which touches on similar themes.