Timothy Snyder

“Nationalism is relativist, since the only truth is the resentment we feel when we contemplate others.”

— 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:…

— Timothy Snyder

“the democracies that arose after the First World War (and the Second) often collapsed when a single party seized power in some…

— Timothy Snyder

“salami tactics—slicing off layers of opposition one by one. Most people were distracted, some were imprisoned, and others were outmatched.”

— 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…

— Timothy Snyder

“The key to this translation of ideology to politics in both cases was an effective appeal to human experience at the crucial…

— Timothy Snyder

“Both of these positions, inevitability and eternity, are antihistorical. The only thing that stands between them is history itself. History allows us…

— Timothy Snyder

“The whole notion of disruption is adolescent: It assumes that after the teenagers make a mess, the adults will come and clean…

— Timothy Snyder

“As she observed, “the first essential step on the road to total domination is to kill the juridical person in man.”

— Timothy Snyder

“The first mode is the open hostility to verifiable reality, which takes the form of presenting inventions and lies as if they…

— Timothy Snyder

“Once we subliminally accept that we are watching a reality show rather than thinking about real life, no image can actually hurt…

— Timothy Snyder

“Confidence in duration is the antidote to panic and the tonic of demagogy.”

— Timothy Snyder

“Be calm when the unthinkable arrives. Modern tyranny is terror management. When the terrorist attack comes, remember that authoritarians exploit such events…

— Timothy Snyder

“Life is political, not because the world cares about how you feel, but because the world reacts to what you do. The…

— Timothy Snyder

“Extremism' certainly sounds bad, and governments often try to make it sound worse by using the word 'terrorism' in the same sentence.…

— Timothy Snyder

“Law had no purpose beyond the codification of a Führer’s momentary intuitions about the good of his race.”

— Timothy Snyder

“Armed groups first degrade a political order, and then transform it.”

— Timothy Snyder

“This was a particularly spectacular example of the German campaign to gather forced labor in the East, which had begun with the…

— Timothy Snyder

“Beyond manipulation itself there was no object or subject of politics. There was only the darkness that is consummate when gifted minds…

— Timothy Snyder

“The second antihistorical way of considering the past is the politics of eternity. Like the politics of inevitability, the politics of eternity…

— Timothy Snyder

“If we are serious about seeking the facts, we can each make a small revolution in the way the internet works. If…

— Timothy Snyder

“If you are verifying information for yourself, you will not send on fake news to others. If”

— Timothy Snyder

“The lesson is that our natural fear and grief must not enable the destruction of our institutions. Courage does not mean not…

— Timothy Snyder

“To abandon facts is to abandon freedom.”

— Timothy Snyder

“how bizarre propaganda actually is, but how normal it seems to those who yield to it.”

— Timothy Snyder