Famous Tzvetan Todorov Quotes
Hope and Memory: Reflections on the Twentieth Century (2003)
“Democracy brought to others through the barrel of a gun is not democracy.”
Hope and Memory: Reflections on the Twentieth Century (2003)
“People who believe themselves to be the incarnation of good have a distorted view of the world.”
Hope and Memory: Reflections on the Twentieth Century (2003)
Hope and Memory: Reflections on the Twentieth Century (2003)
The New World Disorder: Reflections of a European (2005)
paraphrased variant:
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.
Source: Hope and Memory: Reflections on the Twentieth Century (2003), Ch. 5 : The Past in the Present, p. 195
Preface to the English edition (October 2002), p. xxi
Hope and Memory: Reflections on the Twentieth Century (2003)
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