Quote by Timothy Snyder Download Open image ““It is not patriotic to admire foreign dictators. It”” — Timothy Snyder ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“A nationalist will blindly follow his country to his death out of love for it. A patriot will stand up for and even against… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“At the bottom of all patriotism there is war: that is why I am no patriot.” — Jules Renard Copy Share Image
Dictators can always consolidate their tyranny by an appeal to patriotism. — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“I venture to suggest that patriotism is not a short and frenzied outburst of emotion, but the tranquil and steady dedication of a lifetime.” — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Dictators always seek to take weapons away from people so that there can be no effective opposition to their rule.” — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
“But you know as well as I, patriotism is a word; and one that generally comes to mean either my country, right or wrong… — Patrick O'Brian Copy Share Image
“You might think there is nothing more patriotic than dying for your country, but I think there is nothing more patriotic than living for… — Jarod Kintz 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
