Timothy Snyder

“If none of us is prepared to die for freedom, then all of us will die under tyranny”

— Timothy Snyder

“Crucially, though, the peasants had few guns, and poor organization.”

— Timothy Snyder

“History permits us to be responsible: not for everything, but for something.”

— Timothy Snyder

“Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary.”

— Timothy Snyder

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

— Timothy Snyder

“how bizarre propaganda actually is, but how normal it seems to those who yield to it.”

— Timothy Snyder

“the manna of popular liberty must be gathered each day or it is rotten.”

— Timothy Snyder

“The habit of dwelling on victimhood dulls the impulse of self-correction.”

— Timothy Snyder

“The logic of the system they devised was to mitigate the consequences of our real imperfections, not to celebrate our imaginary perfection.…

— 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

“Nazi storm troopers began as a security detail clearing the halls of Hitler’s opponents during his rallies. As”

— Timothy Snyder

“Might did make right, not just in practice, but as a matter of principle; and, of course, this conclusion came very close…

— Timothy Snyder

“If the main pillar of the system is living a lie,” wrote Havel, “then it is not surprising that the fundamental threat…

— Timothy Snyder

“The systematic use of nicknames such as “Lyin’ Ted” and “Crooked Hillary” displaced certain character traits that might more appropriately have been…

— Timothy Snyder

“Sharing in an undertaking teaches us that we can trust people beyond a narrow circle of friends and families, and helps us…

— Timothy Snyder

“Does the history of tyranny apply to the United States? Certainly the early Americans who spoke of “eternal vigilance” would have thought…

— Timothy Snyder

“A planetary vision of bloody racial struggle, something not inherently attractive to most people most of the time, was translated at moments…

— Timothy Snyder

“The European history of the twentieth century shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and ordinary men…

— Timothy Snyder

“Yet it can be recorded, and it can be understood. Indeed, it must be understood so that its like can be prevented…

— Timothy Snyder

“When we fall into the trap of ethnicization and collective responsibility, we collude with Nazi and Soviet propagandists in the abolition of…

— Timothy Snyder

“Daddy and mommy are in the kolkhoz The poor child cries as alone he goes There’s no bread and there’s no fat…

— Timothy Snyder

“Democracy failed in Europe in the 1920s, '30s, and '40s, and it is failing not only in much of Europe but in…

— Timothy Snyder

“AUTHORITARIAN REGIMES USUALLY include a special riot police force whose task is to disperse citizens who seek to protest, and a secret…

— Timothy Snyder

“When the American president and his national security adviser speak of fighting terrorism alongside Russia, what they are proposing to the American…

— Timothy Snyder

“We might be tempted to think that our democratic heritage automatically protects us from such threats. This is a misguided reflex. Our…

— Timothy Snyder

“Defend institutions. It is institutions that help us to preserve decency. They need our help as well. Do not speak of “our…

— Timothy Snyder

“For tyrants, the lesson of the Reichstag fire is that one moment of shock enables an eternity of submission. For us, the…

— Timothy Snyder

“Victor Klemperer, a literary scholar of Jewish origin, turned his philological training against Nazi propaganda. He noticed how Hitler’s language rejected legitimate…

— Timothy Snyder

“It is less appealing, but morally more urgent, to understand the actions of the perpetrators. The moral danger, after all, is never…

— Timothy Snyder

“Once we subliminally accept that we are watching a reality show rather than thinking about real life, no image can actually hurt…

— Timothy Snyder

“When politicians today invoke terrorism they are speaking, of course, of an actual danger. But when they try to train us to…

— Timothy Snyder

“Before you deride the “mainstream media,” note that it is no longer the mainstream. It is derision that is mainstream and easy,…

— Timothy Snyder

“Confidence in duration is the antidote to panic and the tonic of demagogy.”

— Timothy Snyder

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

— Timothy Snyder

“support the multi-party system and defend the rules of democratic elections. Vote in local and state elections while you can.”

— Timothy Snyder

“The first mode is the open hostility to verifiable reality, which takes the form of presenting inventions and lies as if they…

— 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

“We do not see the minds that we hurt when we publish falsehoods, but that does not mean we do no harm.”

— Timothy Snyder

“Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government…

— Timothy Snyder

“It is not patriotic to ask those working, taxpaying American families to finance one’s own presidential campaign, and then to spend their…

— Timothy Snyder