Living a lie Quote by Timothy Snyder

“Nationalism is relativist, since the only truth is the resentment we feel when we contemplate others.”

— Timothy Snyder

“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

“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

“salami tactics—slicing off layers of opposition one by one. Most people were distracted, some were imprisoned, and others were outmatched.”

— Timothy Snyder

“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

“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

“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

“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

“As she observed, “the first essential step on the road to total domination is to kill the juridical person in man.”

— Timothy Snyder

“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

“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

“Confidence in duration is the antidote to panic and the tonic of demagogy.”

— Timothy Snyder