It took me aback because for the first time since I returned home from the West, a suspicion dawned in me that had not occurred to me before. I began to suspect that what surrounded me was something worse than the brute force present. I began to suspect that what surrounded me was not just organized terror but an enemy more dangerous than anything else, an enemy against which there is no defense: stupidity.
Sándor Márai, Memoir of Hungary 1944–1948 (Budapest: Corvina, 1996), 386–87.
Sándor Márai, Memoir of Hungary 1944–1948 (Budapest: Corvina, 1996), 386–87.
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