--- title: "Best Timothy Garton Ash Quotes" description: "Timothy Garton Ash is a British historian, author and commentator. He is Professor of European Studies emeritus at the University of Oxford and a Senior..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-timothy-garton-ash-91025.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Timothy Garton Ash](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b023/author-timothy-garton-ash-91025.jpg) # Timothy Garton Ash (1955) Journalist United Kingdom **42** quotes in **432** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Timothy Garton Ash is a journalist from the United Kingdom, best known for *The Uses of Adversity: Essays on the Fate of Central Europe*. ## Quick Facts About Timothy Garton Ash Born July 12, 1955 Nationality United Kingdom Profession Journalist Notable works The Uses of Adversity: Essays on the Fate of Central Europe Known for The Uses of Adversity: Essays on the Fate of Central Europe, The Magic Lantern: The Revolution of ’89 Witnessed in Warsaw, Budapest, Berlin, and Prague ## About Timothy Garton Ash Timothy Garton Ash is a British historian, author and commentator. He is Professor of European Studies emeritus at the University of Oxford and a Senior Fellow of Stanford University's Hoover Institution. Most of his work has been concerned with the contemporary history of Europe, with a special focus on Central and Eastern Europe. In 1989, George Kennan described him as a 'historian of the present'. ## Awards & Honors Charlemagne Prize Somerset Maugham Award Ischia International Journalism Award Prix Européen de l'Essai Charles Veillon Orwell Prize Hoffmann von Fallersleben Prize Charlemagne Medal for European Media Princess of Asturias Award for Social Sciences Show 9 more awards Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany Companion of the Order of St Michael and St George Member of the Order of Merit of the Republic of Poland Fellow of the Royal Historical Society honorary doctor of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature Theodor Heuss Award Czech Medal of Merit, 1st class ## Quotes by Timothy Garton Ash · Page 2 > [I'm a historian by training and by conviction. And so the thing that has throughout informed my thinking about international relations is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-garton-ash/i-m-a-historian-by-training-and-by-conviction-and-so-the-thing-that/) [Timothy Garton Ash](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-garton-ash/) [Able](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/able/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/7e3/timothy-garton-ash-15575_able_i-m-a-historian-by-training-and-by-convi_37115.png) > [What is the elephant in all our rooms? It is the global triumph of capitalism. Democracy is fiercely disputed. Freedom is under…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/timothy-garton-ash/what-is-the-elephant-in-all-our-rooms-it-is-the-global-triumph-of/) [Timothy Garton Ash](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-garton-ash/) [Britain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/britain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/971/timothy-garton-ash-15575_britain_what-is-the-elephant-in-all-our-rooms-it_835091.jpg) ## Timothy Garton Ash by topic [Europe (15)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/europe/timothy-garton-ash/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/timothy-garton-ash/#itemlist", "name": "Timothy Garton Ash Quotes", "numberOfItems": 2, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I'm a historian by training and by conviction. 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