Death Quote by Timothy Snyder

“History can familiarize, and it can warn. In the late nineteenth century, just as in the late twentieth century, the expansion of global trade…

— Timothy Snyder

“the twentieth century shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and ordinary men can find themselves standing over death…

— Timothy Snyder

“The political history of the twentieth century is the story of greater and more direct political participation. And success kept expanding democracy's scope. Whatever…

— Fareed Zakaria

If you look back at the history of the twentieth century, Germany alone had practically destroyed Russia several times.

— Noam Chomsky

The history of the twentieth century was dominated by the struggle against totalitarian systems of state power. The twenty-first will no doubt be marked…

— Eric Schlosser

“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

“There are dozens of documented cases of Roma or Irish Travelers being falsely accused of stealing children over the twentieth century, and back through…

— Adam Rutherford

“We have adopted European costume, European ways of living, even the European vices of drinking and gambling, but none of their virtues. This must…

— T. Lothrop Stoddard

Can a geology teacher blithely tell his students that the earth is flat, or a European history professor that the Holocaust didn't happen? That's…

— Jerry A. Coyne

More than forty years of Communist rule in Central and Eastern Europe resulted in an unhappy and artificial division of Europe. It is this…

— Anders Fogh Rasmussen

When you think about fascism and right-wing governments, oftentimes people think about European history, but it's been flaring up on and off all throughout…

— Torrey Peters

I am imprinted with the whole sense of European history, especially German history, going back to World War I, which really destroyed all the…

— Lisel Mueller