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The European history of the twentieth century shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and ordinary men can find themselves standing over death pits with guns in their hands.
Timothy Snyder • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
People who assure you that you can only gain security at the price of liberty usually want to deny you both.
Timothy Snyder • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
People who assure you that you can only gain security at the price of liberty usually want to deny you both.
Timothy Snyder • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
If none of us is prepared to die for freedom, then all of us will die under tyranny.
Timothy Snyder • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
We allowed ourselves to accept the politics of inevitability, the sense that history could move in only one direction: toward liberal democracy. After communism in eastern Europe
Timothy Snyder • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
When we choose not to recognize other bodies as human, we create specific social situations, which we then define as the state of nature.
Timothy Snyder • On Freedom
No one (except perhaps a tyrant) has a private life that can survive public exposure by hostile directive.