“To understand one moment is to see the possibility of being the co-creator of another.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“The seduction by a mythicized past prevents us from thinking about possible futures” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Accepting the markings as a natural part of the urban landscape was already a compromise with a murderous future.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Do not obey in advance. Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“If we have no control over who reads what and when, we have no ability to act in the present or plan… — 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
“When we take an active interest in matters of doubtful relevance at moments that are chosen by tyrants and spooks, we participate… — 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
