You submit to tyranny when you renounce the difference…

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

— Timothy Snyder

“To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. You submit to tyranny when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear and what…

— Timothy Snyder

“Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov and Milan Kundera’s The Unbearable Lightness of Being might suit our moment. Sinclair Lewis’s novel It Can’t Happen Here…

— Timothy Snyder

“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

“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

Mr. Chamberlain desires to avert the threat to England's peace by making England, in alliance with Germany, stronger than her rivals and so to…

— Bernhard von Bulow

I would be killed by an atheistic government which was trying to force me to renounce my God-fearing government. I was convinced that the…

— Jeremiah Denton

The mind which renounces, once and for ever, a futile hope, has its compensation in ever-growing calm.

— George Gissing

We honor revelation too highly to make it the antagonist of reason, or to believe that it calls us to renounce our highest powers.

— William Ellery Channing

Renounce all those material things that you gained by exploiting other human beings.

— Tracy Chapman

I call a man a sannyasin who breaks out of these institutions and lives spontaneously. To be a sannyasin is the most courageous act…

— Rajneesh

All worldly pursuits have but one unavoidable and inevitable end, which is sorrow; acquisitions end in dispersion; buildings in destruction; meetings in separation; births…

— Milarepa

The greatest temptation for the like of us is: to renounce violence, to repent, to make peace with oneself. Most revolutionaries fell before this…

— Arthur Koestler

A “collective” mind does not exist. It is merely the sum of endless numbers of individual minds. If we have an endless number of…

— Ayn Rand

It's important for American soldiers to be culturally sensitive when deployed in foreign countries. But it's just as important for the U.S. never to…

— Gary Bauer