Fire Quote by Timothy Snyder

“A Nazi leader outmaneuvers his opponents by manufacturing a general conviction that the present moment is exceptional, and then transforming that state of exception…

— Timothy Snyder

“In the Hitler years we still believed in books enough to burn them. Imagine,”

— William T. Vollmann

“It is only those who have neither fired a shot nor heard the shrieks and groans of the wounded who cry aloud for blood,…

— Jay Allan

“This was one lesson that the war taught me - that every event in time presents opportunities that are recognizable only to those with…

— F. Sionil José

“I attack only things that are triumphant — if necessary, I wait until they become triumphant.”

— Friedrich Nietzsche

“For it’s human nature even in the direst extremity to see a spark of hope and blow it into flames.”

— Leo Perutz

“If there is one lesson we can take away from the extravagant lives of our tyrants it is the fragility of our democratic society…

— Daniel Myerson

“Explosive force of any mortification. Every vanquished desire affords us power. We have the more hold over this world the further we withdraw from…

— Emil Cioran

“To each is given its moment in the blaze, its spark to be surrendered to another when it is sent, so that the blaze…

— Daniel Quinn

“For a second, fire flared inside of him, not like mine, but the fire of a man about to lose control.”

— M. R. Noble

“True power comes from surrender—from letting go, from allowing the fire inside to blaze untamed.”

— E.D.Lane

“It followed then that when Hitler burned a book I felt it as keenly, please forgive me, as his killing a human, for in…

— Ray Bradbury