Quote by Timothy Snyder Download Open image ““We find it natural that we pay for a plumber or a mechanic, but demand our news for free.”” — Timothy Snyder ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“But nothing's really free, is it? People always make you pay one way or another.” — Jane Lotter Copy Share Image
“with all our technology, with all the things that make our lives easier, there's a price to be paid.” — Carol Purcell Copy Share Image
“There is a price for everything in life. Even what you receive freely has already been paid for by someone.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“Nothing is ever free, though to you it be. Somewhere, somehow, someone paid.” — Roger W Hancock Copy Share Image
“We’ve been paying a fraction of what things really cost to make, but meanwhile the planet, and the workers who made the stuff, take… — Kim Stanley Robinson Copy Share Image
“Nobody is interested in hearing your troubles and they too get paid for it.” — Anvita Ahuja Copy Share Image
“We are getting what we paid for, and if we want something else, we are going to have to pay for it, in work,… — R.J. Rushdoony Copy Share Image
“It's amazing that people actually get paid for what I'm doing on here for free.” — Stanley Victor Paskavich 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