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> [“Sharing in an undertaking teaches us that we can trust people beyond a narrow circle of friends and families, and helps us to recognize authorities from whom we can learn. The”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-snyder/sharing-in-an-undertaking-teaches-us-that-we-can-trust-people-beyond/)

[Timothy Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-snyder/)

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> [“When Americans think of freedom, we usually imagine a contest between a lone individual and a powerful government. We tend to conclude that the individual should be empowered and the government kept at bay. This is all well and good.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-snyder/when-americans-think-of-freedom-we-usually-imagine-a-contest-between/)

[Timothy Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-snyder/)

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## More by Timothy Snyder

> [“Nationalism is relativist, since the only truth is the resentment we feel when we contemplate others.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-snyder/nationalism-is-relativist-since-the-only-truth-is-the-resentment-we/)

[Timothy Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-snyder/)

> [“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,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-snyder/the-time-is-out-of-joint-o-cursed-spite-that-ever-i-was-born-to-set/)

[Timothy Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-snyder/)

> [“the democracies that arose after the First World War (and the Second) often collapsed when a single party seized power in some combination of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-snyder/the-democracies-that-arose-after-the-first-world-war-and-the-second/)

[Timothy Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-snyder/)

> [“salami tactics—slicing off layers of opposition one by one. Most people were distracted, some were imprisoned, and others were outmatched.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-snyder/salami-tactics-slicing-off-layers-of-opposition-one-by-one-most/)

[Timothy Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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 imbibed the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-snyder/we-allowed-ourselves-to-accept-the-politics-of-inevitability-the/)

[Timothy Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-snyder/)

> [“The key to this translation of ideology to politics in both cases was an effective appeal to human experience at the crucial time.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-snyder/the-key-to-this-translation-of-ideology-to-politics-in-both-cases-was/)

[Timothy Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-snyder/both-of-these-positions-inevitability-and-eternity-are-antihistorical/)

[Timothy Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-snyder/)

> [“The whole notion of disruption is adolescent: It assumes that after the teenagers make a mess, the adults will come and clean it up.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-snyder/the-whole-notion-of-disruption-is-adolescent-it-assumes-that-after/)

[Timothy Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-snyder/)

> [“As she observed, “the first essential step on the road to total domination is to kill the juridical person in man.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-snyder/as-she-observed-the-first-essential-step-on-the-road-to-total/)

[Timothy Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-snyder/)

> [“The first mode is the open hostility to verifiable reality, which takes the form of presenting inventions and lies as if they were facts.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-snyder/the-first-mode-is-the-open-hostility-to-verifiable-reality-which/)

[Timothy Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-snyder/)

> [“Once we subliminally accept that we are watching a reality show rather than thinking about real life, no image can actually hurt the president…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-snyder/once-we-subliminally-accept-that-we-are-watching-a-reality-show/)

[Timothy Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-snyder/)

> [“Confidence in duration is the antidote to panic and the tonic of demagogy.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-snyder/confidence-in-duration-is-the-antidote-to-panic-and-the-tonic-of/)

[Timothy Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/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…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-snyder/be-calm-when-the-unthinkable-arrives-modern-tyranny-is-terror/)

[Timothy Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-snyder/)

> [“Life is political, not because the world cares about how you feel, but because the world reacts to what you do. The minor choices…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-snyder/life-is-political-not-because-the-world-cares-about-how-you-feel-but/)

[Timothy Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-snyder/)

> [“Extremism' certainly sounds bad, and governments often try to make it sound worse by using the word 'terrorism' in the same sentence. But the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-snyder/extremism-certainly-sounds-bad-and-governments-often-try-to-make-it/)

[Timothy Snyder](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-snyder/)

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