3 Quotes & Sayings By Mark Mazower

Mark Mazower is the bestselling author of " Hitler's Empire: Nazi Rule in Occupied Europe" (2001), which was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize, and " Inside Hitler's Bunker: The Last Days of the Third Reich" (2008), which won the Wolfson Prize for History. His most recent book, " The Dark Side of Democracy: How Mountain Gorillas, Partisans, and Polar Bears Serve as Ecosystems of Human Nature " was an Economist Book of the Year and won the Samuel Johnson Prize.

1
Hasan Pasha also gave the green light for Turks and Greeks to take whatever action they pleased against any Albanians they found: killing them was not a crime. Continuing his march, he executed all the Albanians he encountered, setting fire to a monastery where other were hiding and offering five sequins for every Albanian head brought him. Mark Mazower
2
Democracy suits Europeans today partly because it is associated with the triumph of capitalism and partly because it involves less commitment or intrusion into their lives than any of the alternatives. Europeans accept democracy because they no longer believe in politics. It is for this reason that we find both high levels of support for democracy in cross-national opinion polls and high rates of political apathy. Mark Mazower