Collective responsibility Quote by Timothy Snyder

“The Soviets, at least some of them, believed in what they were doing. After all, they did it themselves and recorded what they did,…

— Timothy Snyder

“What matters is the need to move from the rigidity of national stereotypes towards something more truly human; what matters is to discover the…

— Vasily Grossman

“When reason, common sense, and decency are assaulted often enough, then personality is crippled, and human intelligence disintegrates or is warped. The barrier between…

— Frank Ellis

“Totalitarian politics—far from being simply antisemitic or racist or imperialist or communist—use and abuse their own ideological and political elements until the basis of…

— Hannah Arendt

“If the West once undermined and helped to ultimately defeat the USSR by uniting free market economics, cool culture, and democratic politics into one…

— Peter Pomerantsev

“In 1951, Air Scoop published a long list of organizations that the government had labeled totalitarian, Communist, or subversive, the clear message that affiliation…

— Margot Lee Shetterly

“This political line is wholly neo-Soviet: human beings do not have independent existences, they are cogs in the machine whose function is to implement…

— Anna Politkovskaya

“In times of profound and overwhelming social change like the present, however, extreme views hold out the appeal of simplicity. By ignoring the complexity…

— Hillary Rodham Clinton

“Collectivism leads to concentration camps, leader worship and war.”

— George Orwell

“The Nazi leaders cannot be voided from human society simply because it is pleasanter or more convenient to regard them now as outside the…

— Roger Manvell

“[T]he useful idiots, the leftists who are idealistically believing in the beauty of the Soviet socialist or Communist or whatever system, when they get…

— Yuri Bezmenov

“Separated from National Socialism by time and luck, we find it easy to dismiss Nazi ideas without contemplating how they functioned. Our forgetfulness convinces…

— Timothy Snyder