Quote by Timothy Snyder Download Open image ““Effective prevention of mass killings is incremental and its heroes are invisible.”” — Timothy Snyder ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Immediate action taken by personnel who are on-site when the shooting starts is the most effective way to stop the killing.” — Chris Bird Copy Share Image
“An act of violence, no matter how small, can never be justified if it can be avoided.” — Kamand Kojouri Copy Share Image
“Let’s stand against the killing of innocent civilians. It is time to make the future better than today. Together we can bring peace and… — Widad Akreyi Copy Share Image
“Violence is compelling and ineffective, it can be ascertained, as one becomes an expert at it.” — Patricia Dsouza Copy Share Image
“Except for these unfathomable mass murders. But these are infinitely more difficult to prevent. While law deters the rational, it has far less effect… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“More murders have been committed for respectability than one would believe possible! The” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
“In the history of mankind, the fine art of killing one another in a civilized and uniformed manner has been elusive.” — Richard Marsden Copy Share Image
“We kill at every step, not only in wars, riots ad executions. We kill every time we close our eyes to poverty, suffering and… — Eberhard Arnold Copy Share Image
“The system wears a mask of civility, yet will quickly reveal its true nature in the form of magnificently-purposed violence when needed.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
“As for the sanctimony of people who seem blind to the fact that mass murder is still an annual event, look at Cambodia, Rwanda,… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
“I doubt if there has ever been a society that has been without strong and young people eager to experiment with homicide, provided no… — Kurt Vonnegut 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
