Umberto Eco Quotes About Conspiracy

Quotes about: Conspiracy

• Dan Brown, is a character from Foucault's Pendulum! I invented him. He shares my characters' fascinations - the world conspiracy of Rosicrucians, Masons, and Jesuits. The role of the Knights Templar. The hermetic secret. The principle that everything is connected. I suspect Dan Brown might not even exist.

  Umberto Eco

  Character, Knights, Secret

  "Umberto Eco in quotes - 10 of the best". Paris Review, www.theguardian.com. February 20, 2016.

• I have always been fascinated by paranoid people imagining conspiracies. I am fascinated by this in a critical way.

  Umberto Eco

  People, Way, Conspiracy

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

• All the theories of conspiracy were always a way to escape our responsibilities. It is a very important kind of social sickness by which we avoid recognizing reality such as it is and avoid our responsibilities.

  Umberto Eco

  Responsibility, Reality, Important

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

• Conspiracies and all the theories of conspiracy are a part of the canon of fakes. And I'm involved, in all of my writings, the theoretical ones as well as the novels, with the production of fakes.

  Umberto Eco

  Writing, Fake, Conspiracy

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

• To imagine secret societies and conspiracy is a way not to react to the social and political life. Because you say, "We don't know who they are. We cannot react without reasoning." So it is a way to keep people far from the political environment.

  Umberto Eco

  People, Political, Secret

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

• Conspiracies do exist. Probably in this moment in New York there is an economic group making a conspiracy in order to buy three banks. But if they succeed, they are immediately discovered.

  Umberto Eco

  New York, Order, Succeed

• I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.

  Umberto Eco

  Character, Writing, Facts

  Interview with Chris Wallace, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 2, 2015.

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