Political philosophy Quote by Timothy Snyder Download Open image ““Anticipatory obedience is a political tragedy.”” — Timothy Snyder ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare Political philosophy Politics Resist Tyranny
“Unquestioning obedience is hailed as a great virtue only by those leaders whose commands are highly questionable.” — George Hammond Copy Share Image
“Anyone who speaks of punishing their political enemies in on the wrong side. It is clearly evil and we have a responsibility to say… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
“When obedience ceases to be an irritant and becomes a quest, in that movement God endows us with power.” — Ezra Taft Benson Copy Share Image
“The notion that obedience dehumanizes those who render it is a popular cry of the philosophers of radical individualism, such as Thoreau, who are… — Elizabeth Samet Copy Share Image
“We must take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silent encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“There is indeed something delightful about being able to combine obedience and disobedience in the same act.” — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“We must always take sides. Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the tormentor, never the tormented.” — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
“Sadly, cowardice, ignorance, indifference, greed and fear, rule over the world” — Den Sjo Copy Share Image
“When you think of the long and gloomy history of man, you will find that far more hideous crimes have been committed in the… — C.P. Snow 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
Anarchism as a political philosophy seeks to dissolve all forms of authority and power, and if possible, wishes their complete abolition. — Peter Marshall Copy Share Image
People of Haiti, I am the heir to the political philosophy, the doctrine and the revolution which my late father incarnated as president-for-life [and]… — Jean-Claude Duvalier Copy Share Image
“There is more that unites us than divides us. So make it a point to talk with someone who is different from you. You… — Johnny Corn Copy Share Image
“While you're governing the colony and I'm writing political philosophy, They'll never guess that in the darkness of night we sneak into each other's… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
“If anyone rises to power, it's not only because he could, but also because the stars were aligned in his favor. Many with apparent… — Bangambiki Habyarimana Copy Share Image
“It is your duty,' he said, 'to recover your country not by gold but by the sword. You will be fighting with all you… — Livy Copy Share Image
“My commitment is to urge us all toward moderation and good will toward fellow citizens. If we can set aside unworthy emotions that deepen… — Jeff Rasley Copy Share Image
I very much dislike doctrinaire liberals - they want to own your minds. And I don't like reactionary conservatives. I like to face issues… — Carl Albert Copy Share Image
Political philosophy is realistically utopian when it extends what are ordinarily thought to be the limits of practicable political possibility and, in so doing,… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
An imbalance between rich and poor is the oldest and most fatal ailment of all republics. — Plutarch Copy Share Image
“Your right of religious freedom ends where my right of religious abstinence begins...” — T. Rafael Cimino Copy Share Image
