Tzvetan Todorov quotes

Tzvetan Todorov quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“We should not be simply fighting evil in the name of good, but struggling against the certainties of people who claim always to know where good and evil are to be found.”
-- Tzvetan Todorov

Source : "Hope and Memory: Lessons from the Twentieth Century". Book by Tzvetan Todorov, 2003.

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“People who believe themselves to be the incarnation of good have a distorted view of the world.”
-- Tzvetan Todorov

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“For evil to take place, the acts of a few people are not sufficient; the great majority also has to remain indifferent. That is something of which we are all quite capable.”
-- Tzvetan Todorov

Source : "Hope and Memory: Lessons from the Twentieth Century". Book by Tzvetan Todorov, 2003.

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