Quote by Timothy Snyder Download Open image ““Tyrants seek the hook on which to hang you. Try not to have hooks.”” — Timothy Snyder ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (7 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The punishment of the hook is nothing. The punishment of hunger, and that he is against something that he does not comprehend, is everything.… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“I believe in hanging. Just so long as I'm not the one being hanged.” — Truman Capote Copy Share Image
“In the past I wanted to be hung. It was worth while being hung to be a hero, seeing that life was not really… — Christopher Fry Copy Share Image
“I tried to say beware the room is laid with traps and hung with hooks.” — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
“One day it's the ringing of the bells and the casting down of the evil tyrant, and the next it's everyone sitting around complaining… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
“I will be hang’d, if some eternal villain, Some busy and insinuating rogue, Some cogging, cozening slave, to get some office, Have not devis’d… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“Hang me, oh, hang me, so I'll be dead and gone. I wouldn't mind hanging, boys, but you wait in jail so long.” — Jerry Garcia Copy Share Image
“Who could be interested in the fate of a murderer, but the hangman who would gain his fee?” — Mary Shelley 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 patterns and make judgments. It sketches for us the structures within which we can seek freedom. It reveals moments, of each of them different, none entirely unique. To understand one moment is to see the possibility… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share
“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 politically. Reality television must become most dramatic with each episode. If we found a video of the president performing Cossack dances while Vladimir Putin claps, we would probably just demand the same thing with the president… — Timothy Snyder Copy Share
“Confidence in duration is the antidote to panic and the tonic of demagogy.” — Timothy Snyder Copy Share Image
