"Plus les individus sont éclairés, plus ils sont capables de décider par eux-mêmes - Et moins ils auront tendance à se soumettre aveuglément au pouvo… - Tzvetan Todorov

"Plus les individus sont éclairés, plus ils sont capables de décider par eux-mêmes - Et moins ils auront tendance à se soumettre aveuglément au pouvoir. "La vérite est donc à la fois l'ennemie du pouvoir comme de ceux qui l'exercent"."

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About Tzvetan Todorov

Tzvetan Todorov (1 March 1939 - 7 February 2017) was a Bulgarian-French historian, philosopher, structuralist literary critic, sociologist, essayist and geologist.

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