Pride is not a wise counselor. People who believe themselves to be the incarnation of good have a distorted view of the world. The absence of any obs… - Tzvetan Todorov

Just after the 11 September 2001 attacks, the Turkish writer Orhan Pamuk (who later won the Nobel Prize) observed, in Istanbul, the ordinary and peaceable inhabitants of the city displaying great joy at the collapse of the Twin Towers. What was the explanation? ‘It is neither Islam nor even poverty itself that directly engenders support for terrorists whose ferocity and ingenuity are unprecedented in human history; it is, rather, the crushing humiliation that has infected the third-world countries.

de sa propre expérience : le maçon Lorenzo qui lui sauve la vie à Auschwitz a préservé sa propre dignité en faisant bien le travail auquel il est contraint.

En employant des moyens extrêmes, il est effectivement possible de détruire le contrat social jusqu’à la base, et d’obtenir de la part des hommes des réactions purement animales.