What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre. (Tahar Ben Jelloun)

What have we achieved since the end of the Second World War? We have allowed petty, bourgeois regimes in which everything is average, mediocre.

Tahar Ben Jelloun

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