Quote by Timothy Snyder Download Open image ““But without the conformists, the great atrocities would have been impossible.”” — Timothy Snyder ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Other forces were at work besides conformism. But without the conformists, the great atrocities would have been impossible.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“Some killed from murderous conviction. But many others who killed were just afraid to stand out. other forces were at work besides conformism. But… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“But then, anyone was capable of any manner of atrocities if they wanted something bad enough. People could justify anything to themselves if they… — Stacia Kane Copy Share Image
“The ways of this world hold nothing for us anymore. Our conformity is over. Transformation must begin.” — Chris Tiegreen Copy Share Image
“Conformity was safe. It could tame the wildest beast and temper the hardest savage. If I couldn't run from my past, then maybe I… — Joyce Chua Copy Share Image
“Conformism and non-conformism are symmetrical expressions of a lack of originality.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila Copy Share Image
“They would have blown his brain to pieces before they could reclaim it. The heretical thought would be unpunished, unrepented, out of their reach… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
“Instead, either he wishes to do what other people do (conformism), or he does what other people wish him to do (totalitarianism).” — Viktor E. Frankl Copy Share Image
“In a place like this, there would be petty despots. Factions. This was a sunless world where madness and depravity reigned.” — Ann Aguirre Copy Share Image
“The Great Perhaps was upon us, and we were invincible. The plan may have had faults, but we did not.” — John Green Copy Share Image
“He abhorred people who said things that hadn’t been thought through, thus he abhorred almost all mankind.” — Thomas Bernhard 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
