Timothy Snyder

“Listen for dangerous words.”

— Timothy Snyder

“Make new friends and march with them.”

— Timothy Snyder

“Learn from peers in other countries.”

— Timothy Snyder

“Be calm when the unthinkable arrives.”

— Timothy Snyder

“Be wary of paramilitaries.”

— Timothy Snyder

“Make sure you and your family have passports.”

— Timothy Snyder

“Contribute to good causes.”

— Timothy Snyder

“Practice corporeal politics.”

— Timothy Snyder

“Most the power of authoritarianism is freely given.”

— Timothy Snyder

“Take responsibility for what you communicate with others.”

— Timothy Snyder

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

— Timothy Snyder

“Effective prevention of mass killings is incremental and its heroes are invisible.”

— Timothy Snyder

“And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free.”

— Timothy Snyder

“To understand one moment is to see the possibility of being the co-creator of another.”

— Timothy Snyder

“statehood was crucial to future national existence.”

— Timothy Snyder

“History gives us the company of those who have done and suffered more than we have.”

— Timothy Snyder

“You might one day be offered the opportunity to display symbols of loyalty. Make sure that such symbols include your fellow citizens…

— Timothy Snyder

“Hitler and Stalin both accepted a late-nineteenth-century Darwinistic modification: progress was possible, but only as a result of violent struggle between races…

— Timothy Snyder

“Law had no purpose beyond the codification of a Führer’s momentary intuitions about the good of his race.”

— Timothy Snyder

“the Nazis first and the Soviets later made efforts to direct responsibility for the killing of the Jews to the countries they…

— Timothy Snyder

“changes. It was the deliberate policy of Nazi Germany to artificially create conditions of state destruction and then steer the consequences towards…

— Timothy Snyder

“When we repeat the same words and phrases that appear in the daily media, we accept the absence of a larger framework.”

— Timothy Snyder

“The anticipatory obedience of Austrians in March 1938 taught the high Nazi leadership what was possible.”

— Timothy Snyder

“The SS began as an organization outside the law, became an organization that transcended the law, and ended up as an organization…

— 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

“Fascists rejected reason in the name of will, denying objective truth in favor of a glorious myth articulated by leaders who claimed…

— Timothy Snyder

“When we repeat the same words and phrases that appear in the daily media, we accept the absence of a larger framework.…

— 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

“Power wants your body softening in your chair and your emotions dissipating on the screen. Get outside. Put your body in unfamiliar…

— Timothy Snyder

“If members of the professions confuse their specific ethics with the emotions of the moment, however, they can find themselves saying and…

— Timothy Snyder

“That November, German authorities held parliamentary elections (without opposition) and a referendum (on an issue where the “correct” answer was known) to…

— Timothy Snyder

“Be kind to our language: avoid pronouncing the phrases everyone else does. Think up your own way of speaking, even if only…

— 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

“For resistance to succeed, two boundaries must be crossed. First, ideas about change must engage people of various backgrounds who do not…

— Timothy Snyder

“Auschwitz has also become the standard shorthand of the Holocaust because, when treated in a certain mythical and reductive way, it seems…

— 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

“You might one day be offered the opportunity to display symbols of loyalty. Make sure that such symbols include your fellow citizens…

— Timothy Snyder

“Much needs to be done to fix the gerrymandered system so that each citizen has one equal vote, and so that each…

— 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

“Some spoke critically of neoliberalism, the sense that the idea of the free market has somehow crowded out all others. This was…

— Timothy Snyder