Freedom Quote by Timothy Snyder

“To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so.” quote by Timothy Snyder — Download Open image

““To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so.””

Timothy Snyder

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (6 ratings)

Freedom

More by Timothy Snyder

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

Timothy Snyder

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

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

Image

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

Timothy Snyder

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

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

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

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

Image

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

Timothy Snyder

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

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

Image

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

Timothy Snyder

Image

Explore all 339 Timothy Snyder quotes

More Freedom quotes

One is a painter because one wants so-called freedom; one doesn't want to go to the office every morning.

Marcel Duchamp

Image

Some people still believe you should just fall in line with what's going on - and that's scary. It makes a mockery of freedom…

Emily Robison

Image

I believe in freedom to do what you want if you aren't hurting others, but pictures of obese protesters giving their children big gulps.

Philip DeFranco

Image

Elections belong to the people. It's their decision. If they decide to turn their back on the fire and burn their behinds, then they…

Abraham Lincoln

Image

If we gave up our freedom as the price of security, we would no longer be the great nation that we are.

Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Image

We live in the greatest country in the world because of the veterans who have sacrificed their lives for our freedom and the security…

Jon Husted

Image

Philosopher is a dictator who modifies accepted standards with his thoughts.

Ilkin Santak

Image

“No one was more surprised than I to realize that my newfound freedom had been purchased by giving up on eternity and settling for…

Carolyn Jessop

Image

“In a world of fixed future, there can be no right or wrong. Right and wrong demand freedom of choice, but if each action…

Alan Lightman

Image

“In any case, white people, who had robbed black people of their liberty and who profited by this theft every hour that they lived,…

James Baldwin

Image

I have observed this in my experience of slavery, - that whenever my condition was improved, instead of its increasing my contentment, it only…

Frederick Douglass

Image

“I have to blame myself for not finding any way of reaching him, but I can't feel that either Ruth or I had anything…

Wallace Stegner

Image

Browse all 29,794 Freedom quotes

Freedom Quote by Timothy Snyder

Related quotes

More by Timothy Snyder

More Freedom quotes