I will be attending Tzvetan Todorov's lecture this evening at the RSA (Royal Society of Arts) entitled "In Defence of the Enlightment", which should be a fascinating event. And that led me to dig out a few quotes of his, loosly connected with the concepts of right, wrong and certainty.
"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."
"People who believe themselves to be the incarnation of good have a distorted view of the world."
"Democracy brought to others through the barrel of a gun is not democracy."
Food for thought ...
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