BAKUNIN: Left to themselves people are noble, generous, uncorrupted. They’d create a completely new kind of society if only people weren’t so blind, stupid and selfish.
HERZEN: Is that the same people or different people?
BAKUNIN: The same people.

Tom Stoppard (b. 1937) Czech-English playwright and screenwriter
The Coast of Utopia: Salvage (2002)

 
Added on 7-Nov-14 | Last updated 7-Nov-14
Link to this post | No comments
Topics: , ,
More quotes by Stoppard, Tom

Thoughts? Comments? Corrections? Feedback?