Quote by Timothy Snyder Download Open image ““Crucially, though, the peasants had few guns, and poor organization.”” — Timothy Snyder ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.8 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“There were guns. And tigers. And horses, Ma, the horses were horrible. And basically, people wanted to kill us. Well, not us specifically, but—” — Abigail Roux - Stars Stripes Copy Share Image
“a small number of wealthy landowners has dominated a large population of landless and small-holding peasants.” — Bob Copy Share Image
“It was a pity, he reflected, that the men of good will are so poorly armed, for at times it was a handicap not… — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“But there never was a country, no matter how noble or well-intentioned, that wasn't infected by a greedy and power-hungry few.” — Jonathan Maberry Copy Share Image
“The group was led by a very thin man whom the sheep didn't know. They looked hard at him. The leader of the flock… — Leonie Swann Copy Share Image
“As a result of this greed for power, the poor is not only silenced but also oppressed.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Although enemy forces had overrun the mortar and some gun positions, they did not have everything their own way.” — Michael G. Kramer Copy Share Image
“Often the poor have more nobility in them than the actual nobility.” — Amish Tripathi Copy Share Image
“Everywhere, rulers and elites sprang up, living off the peasants’ surplus food and leaving them with only a bare subsistence.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“even in their poverty they carried themselves with a fierce and stubborn pride that warned others to treat them with respect.” — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
“... the more complex they made their world, the less capable they were of dealing with it. They had no means of consensus. They… — John Wyndham Copy Share Image
“You can't do much for the poor, as they are not in with the right people.” — Will Cuppy 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
