“A Nazi leader outmaneuvers his opponents by manufacturing a general conviction that the present moment is exceptional, and then transforming that state… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“It is your ability to discern facts that makes you an individual, and our collective trust in common knowledge that makes us… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Remember professional ethics. When political leaders set a negative example, professional commitments to just practice become more important. It is hard to… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“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 Copy Share Image
“That November, German authorities held parliamentary elections (without opposition) and a referendum (on an issue where the “correct” answer was known) to… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“The most intelligent of the Nazis, the legal theorist Carl Schmitt, explained in clear language the essence of fascist governance. The way… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“On February 2, 1933, for example, a leading newspaper for German Jews published an editorial expressing this mislaid trust: We do not… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“The way to destroy all rules, he explained, was to focus on the idea of the exception. A Nazi leader outmaneuvers his… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“The anticipatory obedience of Austrians in March 1938 taught the high Nazi leadership what was possible.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Fascists rejected reason in the name of will, denying objective truth in favor of a glorious myth articulated by leaders who claimed… — 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
