TZVETAN TODOROV

For evil to take place, the acts of a few people are not sufficient; the great majority also has to remain indifferent.

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.

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.

Democracy brought to others through the barrel of a gun is not democracy.

People who believe themselves to be the incarnation of good have a distorted view of the world.

People who believe themselves to be the incarnation of good have a distorted view of the world.

For evil to take place, the acts of a few people are not sufficient; the great majority also has to remain indifferent.

Democracy brought to others through the barrel of a gun is not democracy.

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.

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.