Quote by Timothy Snyder Download Open image ““Practice corporeal politics.”” — Timothy Snyder ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.0 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Politics, n. Strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles.” — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
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“Political debate: when charlatans come together to discuss their principles.” — Bauvard Copy Share Image
“Turns out we need to know one more thing on earth: politics--because of its capacity, when benign, to allow all around it to flourish,… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
“I suggested that a better understanding of human nature in the light of modern science can point the way to an approach to politics… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“Politics is downstream from culture and not the other way around.” — Timothy S. Goeglein Copy Share Image
“Politics was at once clinical and human, driven by principles and passions that he (the leader) had to master and harness for the good… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
“All concepts of politics, of whatever kind, are about conflict──how to contain it, or abolish it.” — Ralph Miliband Copy Share Image
“Politics is the 2'nd oldest Profession. The one you get what we paid for. And the other one WE GET SCREWED!” — Ron Rinna Copy Share Image
“Wise politics is the art of invigorating society and weakening the State.” — Nicolás Gómez Dávila 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
