“The ideal capitalism envisioned by advocates of the free market depends upon social virtues and wise policies that it does not itself… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“A common American error is to believe that freedom is the absence of state authority.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. You submit to tyranny when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“People who assure you that you can only gain security at the price of liberty usually want to deny you both.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“the manna of popular liberty must be gathered each day or it is rotten.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“It can feel strange to do or say something different. But without that unease, there is no freedom.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“You can certainly concede freedom without becoming more secure. The” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“We are free only insofar as we exercise control over what people know about us, and in what circumstances they come to… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“It is easy to imagine situations where we sacrifice both freedom and safety at the same time: when we enter an abusive… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“In the twentieth century, all the major enemies of freedom were hostile to non-governmental organizations, charities, and the like. Communists required all… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“When Americans think of freedom, we usually imagine a contest between a lone individual and a powerful government. We tend to conclude… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“One of the errors of the 2003 invasion of Iraq was the belief that regime change must be creative. The theory was… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“It is the government’s job to increase both freedom and security.” — 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
“History allows us to see patterns and make judgments. It sketches for us the structures within which we can seek freedom. It… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“We are free only when it is we ourselves who draw the line between when we are seen and when we are… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“We are free only insofar as we exercise control over what people know about us, and in what circumstances they come to… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Stand out. Someone has to. It is easy to follow along. It can feel strange to do or say something different. But… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“If none of us is prepared to die for freedom, then all of us will die under tyranny” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“The claim that order is freedom or that freedom is order ends in tyranny.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Our time is certainly out of joint. We have forgotten history for one reason and, if we are not careful, we will… — 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
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
“Confidence in duration is the antidote to panic and the tonic of demagogy.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
