“We do not see the minds that we hurt when we publish falsehoods, but that does not mean we do no harm.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Nationalism is relativist, since the only truth is the resentment we feel when we contemplate others.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“If the main pillar of the system is living a lie,” wrote Havel, “then it is not surprising that the fundamental threat… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“The first mode is the open hostility to verifiable reality, which takes the form of presenting inventions and lies as if they… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Once truth had become oracular rather than factual, evidence was irrelevant. At the end of the war a worker told Klemperer that… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Since in the age of the internet we are all publishers, each of us bears some private responsibility for the public’s sense… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“10 Believe in truth. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Fascists rejected reason in the name of will, denying objective truth in favor of a glorious myth articulated by leaders who claimed… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“You submit to tyranny when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear and what is actually the case. This… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Both fascism and communism were responses to globalization: to the real and perceived inequalities it created, and the apparent helplessness of the… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Since in the age of the internet we are all publishers, each of us bears some responsibility for the public's sense of… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“What is truth?" Sometimes people ask this question because they wish to do nothing. Generic cynicism makes us feel hip and alternative… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“When faith descends from heaven to earth in this way, no room remains for the small truths of our individual discernment and… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Both fascism and communism were responses to globalization: to the real and perceived inequalities it created, and the apparent helplessness of the… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Since in the age of the internet we are all publishers, each of us bears some private responsibility for the public’s sense… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“As observers of totalitarianism such as Victor Klemperer noticed, truth dies in four modes, all of which we have just witnessed. The… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Nationalism is relativist, since the only truth is the resentment we feel when we contemplate others.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share
“The time is out of joint. O cursed spite,/That ever I was born to set it right!” Thus Hamlet. Yet he concludes: “Nay, come,… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share
“the democracies that arose after the First World War (and the Second) often collapsed when a single party seized power in some combination of… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share
“salami tactics—slicing off layers of opposition one by one. Most people were distracted, some were imprisoned, and others were outmatched.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share
“We allowed ourselves to accept the politics of inevitability, the sense that history could move in only one direction: toward liberal democracy...We imbibed the… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share
“The key to this translation of ideology to politics in both cases was an effective appeal to human experience at the crucial time.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share
“Both of these positions, inevitability and eternity, are antihistorical. The only thing that stands between them is history itself. History allows us to see… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share
“The whole notion of disruption is adolescent: It assumes that after the teenagers make a mess, the adults will come and clean it up.… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share
“As she observed, “the first essential step on the road to total domination is to kill the juridical person in man.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share
“The first mode is the open hostility to verifiable reality, which takes the form of presenting inventions and lies as if they were facts.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share
“Once we subliminally accept that we are watching a reality show rather than thinking about real life, no image can actually hurt the president… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share
“Confidence in duration is the antidote to panic and the tonic of demagogy.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share
“Be calm when the unthinkable arrives. Modern tyranny is terror management. When the terrorist attack comes, remember that authoritarians exploit such events in order… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share
“Life is political, not because the world cares about how you feel, but because the world reacts to what you do. The minor choices… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share
“Extremism' certainly sounds bad, and governments often try to make it sound worse by using the word 'terrorism' in the same sentence. But the… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share
