History Quote by Timothy D. Snyder Download Open image “Most Americans are exceptionalists; we think we live outside of history.” — Timothy D. Snyder ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare History Live Most Outside Think
American exceptionalism, in the broad sense, is not a bunch of braggadocious words people say, "Yeah, we're better people. We have a better country.… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
America's exceptional nature confers upon us responsibilities. We are not exceptional because we say so; we are exceptional because, over and over, we do… — Sheldon Whitehouse Copy Share Image
The human condition for the vast majority of people on this planet for the entire time of what humanity has been here has been… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
The idea of American exceptionalism doesn't extend to Americans being exceptional. — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
American exceptionalism? Exceptional at what? Waging wars against innocent people for fake reasons? Exceptional at what? Being addicted to pharmaceutical drugs that have people's… — Gerald Celente Copy Share Image
Even a cursory run through American history shows exceptionalism has been used to justify bloodshed, oppression, and profit. — Ben Fountain Copy Share Image
The notion of American exceptionalism is effective in part because there is little on the face of it that is offensive. — Russ Feingold Copy Share Image
American exceptionalism is grounded in the founding of the United States upon an idea, rather than upon the ambitions of men. — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
We are exceptional not because of who we are but because of what we do and how we put the ideals of human dignity,… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
It is not that I am not a fan of American exceptionalism. That is like saying I am not a fan of the moon… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When you hear Americans talk about American exceptionalism, American exceptionalism is American nationalism at play. — John Mearsheimer Copy Share Image
American exceptionalism is the recurring character in the nation's narrative. — Ron Fournier Copy Share Image
It is aspiring tyrants who say that 'civil liberties end when an attack on our safety begins.' Conversely, leaders who wish to preserve the… — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
Americans can accept that the American Dream will not work out for them; what has been heartbreaking for so many is the sense that… — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
Defend an institution. Follow the courts or the media, or a court or a newspaper. Do not speak of 'our institutions' unless you are… — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
Courage does not mean not fearing or not grieving. It does mean recognizing and resisting terror management right away, from the moment of the… — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
In rhetoric and action, the Trump administration has aggrandized 'radical Islamic terror,' thus making what Madison called a 'favorable emergency' more likely. — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
I thought I was going to grow up and become a diplomat and negotiate nuclear arms. — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
Mr. Trump is primarily a television personality. As such, he is judged by that standard. This means that a scandal does not call forth… — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
We think about democracy, and that's the word that Americans love to use, 'democracy,' and that's how we characterize our system. But if democracy… — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
Every day you don't do something, it makes it less likely that you will ever do something. So you've got to get started right… — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
Anticipatory obedience teaches authorities what is possible and accelerates unfreedom. — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
In the descent from a world of factual discourse into a world of emotions and alternative realities, the first step you take, whether you're… — Timothy D. Snyder Copy Share Image
Histories never conclude; they just pause their prose. Their stories are, if they are truthful, untidy affairs, resistant to windings-up and sortings-out. They beat… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
It is said that history turns on small hinges. A human career, too, results from an accumulating series of decisions about large and small… — Norman Vincent Peale Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
In the entire history of the universe, let alone in your own history, there has never been another day just like today, and there… — Frederick Buechner Copy Share Image
History has often showed us the strength of the forces that are unleashed by the yearning for freedom. It moved people to overcome their… — Angela Merkel Copy Share Image
We find few historians who have been diligent enough in their search for truth; it is their common method to take on trust what… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end. — Jean Cocteau Copy Share Image
Things live and die, and then someone processes them into edible portions. This is a complete telling of the story, 'Food.' The basic plot… — David Fahrenthold Copy Share Image
History is a certain way, but you just change the point of view a little bit, and you discover a whole new side of… — Allison Schroeder Copy Share Image
We're at a point in history were we have to become a part of the neighborhood of inhabited planets, like a neighborhood of a… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
