Politics Quotes by Timothy Snyder

“Most the power of authoritarianism is freely given.”

— Timothy Snyder

“Practice corporeal politics.”

— Timothy Snyder

“Having old friends is the politics of last resort.”

— Timothy Snyder

“Anticipatory obedience is a political tragedy.”

— Timothy Snyder

“To abandon facts is to abandon freedom.”

— Timothy Snyder

“The psychological and political reasons to overcompensate by insisting on victimhood were strong.”

— Timothy Snyder

“This unprecedented mass murder would have been impossible without a special kind of politics. —”

— Timothy Snyder

“The politics of the greater evil was a common creation at a time of chaos. —”

— Timothy Snyder

“If young people do not begin to make history, politicians and inevitability will destroy it.”

— Timothy Snyder

“The politics of inevitability is a self-induced intellectual coma.”

— Timothy Snyder

“What matters is that this spectacular act of terror initiated the politics of emergency. Gazing”

— Timothy Snyder

“Life is political, not because the world cares about how you feel, but because the world reacts to what you do.”

— Timothy Snyder

“If young people do not begin to make history, politicians of eternity and inevitability will destroy it. And”

— Timothy Snyder

“Beyond manipulation itself there was no object or subject of politics. There was only the darkness that is consummate when gifted minds…

— Timothy Snyder

“If young people do not begin to make history, politicians of eternity and inevitability will destroy it. And to make history, young…

— Timothy Snyder

“The whole notion of disruption is adolescent: It assumes that after the teenagers make a mess, the adults will come and clean…

— Timothy Snyder

“generations have laid before them. One thing is certain: If young people do not begin to make history, politicians of eternity and…

— Timothy Snyder

“WE TEND TO assume that institutions will automatically maintain themselves against even the most direct attacks. This was the very mistake that…

— Timothy Snyder

“In the politics of eternity, the seduction by a mythicized past prevents us from thinking about possible futures. The habit of dwelling…

— Timothy Snyder

“The point of politics is to keep multiple and irreducible goods in play, rather than yielding to some dream, Nazi or otherwise,…

— Timothy Snyder

“Soviet state destruction made the political perspective of people who had been marginal right-wing national terrorists seem like the mainstream. Lithuanians”

— Timothy Snyder

“Life is political, not because the world cares about how you feel, but because the world reacts to what you do. The…

— Timothy Snyder

“Politicians in our times feed their clichés to television, where even those who wish to disagree repeat them. Television purports to challenge…

— Timothy Snyder

“You submit to tyranny when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear and what is actually the case. This…

— Timothy Snyder

“We allowed ourselves to accept the politics of inevitability, the sense that history could move in only one direction: toward liberal democracy...We…

— Timothy Snyder

“When political leaders set a negative example, professional commitments to just practice become more important. It is hard to subvert a rule-of-law…

— Timothy Snyder

“We are in the presence,” said Winston Churchill, “of a crime without a name.” Its perpetrators were human beings, operating with initiative…

— Timothy Snyder

“On the political Right, the erosion of state power by international capitalism seems natural; on the political Left, rudderless revolutions portray themselves…

— Timothy Snyder

“What the great political thinker Hannah Arendt meant by totalitarianism was not an all-powerful state, but the erasure of the difference between…

— Timothy Snyder

“The danger we now face is of a passage from the politics of inevitability to the politics of eternity, from a naive…

— Timothy Snyder

“When we take an active interest in matters of doubtful relevance at moments that are chosen by tyrants and spooks, we participate…

— Timothy Snyder

“Some of the political and historical texts that inform the arguments made here are “Politics and the English Language” by George Orwell…

— Timothy Snyder

“The odd American idea that giving money to political campaigns is free speech means that the very rich have far more speech,…

— Timothy Snyder

“When Americans think of freedom, we usually imagine a contest between a lone individual and a powerful government. We tend to conclude…

— Timothy Snyder

“The second antihistorical way of considering the past is the politics of eternity. Like the politics of inevitability, the politics of eternity…

— Timothy Snyder

“Because the American federal government uses mercenaries in warfare and American state governments pay corporations to run prisons, the use of violence…

— Timothy Snyder

“In the politics of eternity, the seduction by a mythicized past prevents us from thinking about possible futures. The habit of dwelling…

— Timothy Snyder

“Why then should we form our political judgment on the basis of zero investment? We get what we pay for.”

— Timothy Snyder

“It is the government’s job to increase both freedom and security.”

— Timothy Snyder

“In politics, being deceived is no excuse. —LESZEK KOŁAKOWSKI”

— Timothy Snyder