Todorov Quotes

#1. ..according to recent research carried out by psychologist Alexander Todorov, most people actually make a judgement aobut someone based on his facial appearance within one-tenth of a second...

Ian Cocoran

#2. They're very strong in memory. Didn't do very much in microprocessors or digital signal processing.

Jack Kilby

#3. The thirst for vengeance did not wait for Islam to appear in the world, and the appeal to the law of an eye for an eye and a tooth for a tooth is universal.

Tzvetan Todorov

#4. Oh, what peril attaches to sin willfully committed! For it is so difficult for man to bring himself to penance, and without penitence guilt remains and will ever remain, so long as man retains unchanged the will to sin, or is intent upon committing it.

Catherine Of Genoa

#5. When the critic has said everything in his power about a literary text, he has still said nothing; for the very existence of literature implies that it cannot be replaced by non-literature

Tzvetan Todorov

#6. 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.

Tzvetan Todorov

#7. It is no longer necessary to resort to the power of a state in order to inflict heavy losses on your enemy, since a few highly motivated individuals with even a minimum of financial resources are enough."Hostile Forces" have completely changed their appearance.

Tzvetan Todorov

#8. And I'll bury my soul in a scrapbook, with the photographs there and the moths.

Leonard Cohen

#9. Life cannot withstand death, but memory is gaining in its struggle against nothingness.

Tzvetan Todorov

#10. I don't believe in the art-for-art's-sake philosophy. With the raw material before me and the gifts within me, I did my best to celebrate the voices and intelligence and sweetness and dreams of the children in spite of their chaotic, outer worlds ...

Uwem Akpan

#11. They dug up so much silver to pay for their wars of conquest that the metal itself dramatically declined in value - that is to say, in its purchasing power with respect to other goods.

Niall Ferguson

#12. The fear of barbarians is what risks making us barbarians.

Tzvetan Todorov

#13. It'll certainly give the pigeons something to do.

Pat Cash

#14. I know full well how important women are in diplomacy and development. I grew up with seven sisters.

Ronan Farrow

#15. 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.

Tzvetan Todorov