Time Quote by Timothy Snyder Download Open image ““The seduction by a mythicized past prevents us from thinking about possible futures”” — Timothy Snyder ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Time
“The seduction by a mythicized pas prevents us from thinking about possible futures” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
“While we fancy ourselves going straight forward, and attaining, at every step, an entirely new position of affairs, we do actually return to something… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“By imagination and reason we turn experience into foresight; we become the creators of our future, and cease to be the slaves of our… — Will Durant Copy Share Image
The myths and folk tales of the whole world make clear that the refusal is essentially a refusal to give up what one takes… — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
“At critical moments in the life of individuals and of societies, it is not necessarily the facts that are needed as much as a… — Michael Meade Copy Share Image
“For most of human history, myths have survived through changing times because they did not demand to be seen as a literal retelling of… — Jonah Sachs Copy Share Image
“Anytime one tries to take fragments of one's personal mythology and make them understandable to the whole world, one reaches back to the past.… — Assotto Saint Copy Share Image
“Only to say that the myths survive when everything else has been forgotten. And that sometimes the myths, for all their slippery deceptions, tell… — Tom Harper Copy Share Image
“For the point is this: not that myth refers us back to some original event which has been fancifully transcribed as it passed through… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
“There are days when my imagination in my enemy. It likes to keep me company in my darkest of times and romanticizes a past… — Alfa H 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
'Mad TV' is one of my most favorite shows of all time and is a huge part of my obsession with sketch comedy. — Shane Dawson Copy Share Image
These joys were so trifling as to be as imperceptible as grains of gold among the sand, and in moments of depression she saw… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
“William didn't look like he'd be difficult about anything - he was thin and sandy-haired and already wore eyeglasses like his father. Most of… — Patricia C. Wrede Copy Share Image
Intel has a very complete process that I go through any time I want to sell that ensures I have no insider information. — Brian Krzanich Copy Share Image
I feel like the future is unwritten. So many of the things that we write now haven't been about educating people on the environment,… — John Flansburgh Copy Share Image
You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When you do things they're absolutely right at that time for you and it can always teach you something about yourself. You can take… — Kym Marsh Copy Share Image
Resist discouragement by speaking His Word over your future. Keep standing. Keep hoping; keep believing because He is working behind the scenes. He's going… — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
If I had a dollar for every time I couldn’t sleep, I could buy a billion locks and finally read a book in peace. — Aesop Rock Copy Share Image
Me.. I have been through a lot, but I still manage to have a smile on my face. Im not worried about the past… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The future is only an indifferent void no one cares about, but the past is filled with life, and its countenance is irritating, repellent,… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
