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Timothy Snyder Quote: “We do not see the minds that we hurt when we publish falsehoods, but that does not mean we do no harm.”

251. “We do not see the minds that we hurt when we publish falsehoods, but that does not mean we do no harm.”

— Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder Quote: “To understand one moment is to see the possibility of being the co-creator of another.”

252. “To understand one moment is to see the possibility of being the co-creator of another.”

— Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder Quote: “Sometimes institutions are deprived of vitality and function, turned into a simulacrum of what they once were, so that they gird the new order rather than resisting it. This is what the Nazis called Gleichschaltung.”

253. “Sometimes institutions are deprived of vitality and function, turned into a simulacrum of what they once were, so that they gird the new order rather than resisting it. This is what the Nazis called Gleichschaltung.”

— Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder Quote: “Watching televised news is sometimes little more than looking at someone who is also looking at a picture. We take this collective trance to be normal. We have slowly fallen into it.”

254. “Watching televised news is sometimes little more than looking at someone who is also looking at a picture. We take this collective trance to be normal. We have slowly fallen into it.”

— Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder Quote: “Set a good example of what America means for the generations to come. They will need it.”

255. “Set a good example of what America means for the generations to come. They will need it.”

— Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder Quote: “By 1940 most Europeans had made their peace with the seemingly irresistible power of Nazi Germany. Influential Americans such as Charles Lindbergh opposed war with the Nazis under the slogan “America First.”

256. “By 1940 most Europeans had made their peace with the seemingly irresistible power of Nazi Germany. Influential Americans such as Charles Lindbergh opposed war with the Nazis under the slogan “America First.”

— Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder Quote: “Each story on televised news is “breaking” until it is displaced by the next one.”

257. “Each story on televised news is “breaking” until it is displaced by the next one.”

— Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder Quote: “Milgram grasped that people are remarkably receptive to new rules in a new setting. They are surprisingly willing to harm and kill others in the service of some new purpose if they are so instructed by a new authority.”

258. “Milgram grasped that people are remarkably receptive to new rules in a new setting. They are surprisingly willing to harm and kill others in the service of some new purpose if they are so instructed by a new authority.”

— Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder Quote: “If we have no control over who reads what and when, we have no ability to act in the present or plan for the future. Whoever.”

259. “If we have no control over who reads what and when, we have no ability to act in the present or plan for the future. Whoever.”

— Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder Quote: “Before it was over, Soviet citizens were butchering corpses for human meat.”

260. “Before it was over, Soviet citizens were butchering corpses for human meat.”

— Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder Quote: “Does the history of tyranny apply to the United States? Certainly the early Americans who spoke of “eternal vigilance” would have thought so. The.”

261. “Does the history of tyranny apply to the United States? Certainly the early Americans who spoke of “eternal vigilance” would have thought so. The.”

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Timothy Snyder Quote: “For us, the lesson is that our natural fear and grief must not enable the destruction of our institutions.”

262. “For us, the lesson is that our natural fear and grief must not enable the destruction of our institutions.”

— Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder Quote: “You can certainly concede freedom without becoming more secure. The.”

263. “You can certainly concede freedom without becoming more secure. The.”

— Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder Quote: “Institutions do not protect themselves. They fall one after the other unless each is defended from the beginning.”

264. “Institutions do not protect themselves. They fall one after the other unless each is defended from the beginning.”

— Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder Quote: “Rather than reporting the violation of basic rights, our media generally preferred to mindlessly indulge the inherently salacious interest we have in other people’s affairs.”

265. “Rather than reporting the violation of basic rights, our media generally preferred to mindlessly indulge the inherently salacious interest we have in other people’s affairs.”

— Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder Quote: “Make an effort to separate yourself from the internet. Read books.”

266. “Make an effort to separate yourself from the internet. Read books.”

— Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder Quote: “We find it natural that we pay for a plumber or a mechanic, but demand our news for free. If we did not pay for plumbing or auto repair, we would not expect to drink water or drive cars. Why then should we form our political judgement on the basis of zero invetsment? We get what we pay for.”

267. “We find it natural that we pay for a plumber or a mechanic, but demand our news for free. If we did not pay for plumbing or auto repair, we would not expect to drink water or drive cars. Why then should we form our political judgement on the basis of zero invetsment? We get what we pay for.”

— Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder Quote: “If we believe that the Holocaust was a result of the inherent characteristics of Jews, Germans, Poles, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, or anyone else, then we are moving in Hitler’s world. –.”

268. “If we believe that the Holocaust was a result of the inherent characteristics of Jews, Germans, Poles, Lithuanians, Ukrainians, or anyone else, then we are moving in Hitler’s world. –.”

— Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder Quote: “Make eye contact and small talk.”

269. “Make eye contact and small talk.”

— Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder Quote: “Armed groups first degrade a political order, and then transform it. Violent right-wing groups, such as the Iron Guard in interwar Romania or the Arrow Cross in interwar Hungary, intimidated their rivals.”

270. “Armed groups first degrade a political order, and then transform it. Violent right-wing groups, such as the Iron Guard in interwar Romania or the Arrow Cross in interwar Hungary, intimidated their rivals.”

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Timothy Snyder Quote: “The sudden disaster that requires the end of checks and balances, the dissolution of opposition parties, the suspension of freedom of expression, the right to a fair trial, and so on, is the oldest trick in the Hitlerian book. Do not fall for it.”

271. “The sudden disaster that requires the end of checks and balances, the dissolution of opposition parties, the suspension of freedom of expression, the right to a fair trial, and so on, is the oldest trick in the Hitlerian book. Do not fall for it.”

— Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder Quote: “Armed groups first degrade a political order, and then transform it.”

272. “Armed groups first degrade a political order, and then transform it.”

— Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder Quote: “Might did make right, not just in practice, but as a matter of principle; and, of course, this conclusion came very close to abolishing the very idea of principle.”

273. “Might did make right, not just in practice, but as a matter of principle; and, of course, this conclusion came very close to abolishing the very idea of principle.”

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Timothy Snyder Quote: “When we repeat the same words and phrases that appear in the daily media, we accept the absence of a larger framework. To have such a framework requires more concepts, and having more concepts requires reading. So get the screens out of your room and surround yourself with books. The characters in Orwell’s and Bradbury’s books could not do this – but we still can.”

274. “When we repeat the same words and phrases that appear in the daily media, we accept the absence of a larger framework. To have such a framework requires more concepts, and having more concepts requires reading. So get the screens out of your room and surround yourself with books. The characters in Orwell’s and Bradbury’s books could not do this – but we still can.”

— Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder Quote: “After communism in eastern Europe came to an end in 1989–91, we imbibed the myth of an “end of history.” In doing so, we lowered our defenses, constrained our imagination, and opened the way for precisely the kinds of regimes we told ourselves could never return.”

275. “After communism in eastern Europe came to an end in 1989–91, we imbibed the myth of an “end of history.” In doing so, we lowered our defenses, constrained our imagination, and opened the way for precisely the kinds of regimes we told ourselves could never return.”

— Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder Quote: “We are free only when it is we ourselves who draw the line between when we are seen and when we are not seen.”

276. “We are free only when it is we ourselves who draw the line between when we are seen and when we are not seen.”

— Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder Quote: “Practice corporeal politics.”

277. “Practice corporeal politics.”

— Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder Quote: “Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary.”

278. “Be angry about the treacherous use of patriotic vocabulary.”

— Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder Quote: “The final mode is misplaced faith.”

279. “The final mode is misplaced faith.”

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Timothy Snyder Quote: “If members of the professions confuse their specific ethics with the emotions of the moment, however, they can find themselves saying and doing things that they might previously have thought unimaginable.”

280. “If members of the professions confuse their specific ethics with the emotions of the moment, however, they can find themselves saying and doing things that they might previously have thought unimaginable.”

— Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder Quote: “The second mode is shamanistic incantation.”

281. “The second mode is shamanistic incantation.”

— Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder Quote: “The word “Auschwitz” has become a metonym for the Holocaust as a whole. Yet the vast majority of Jews had already been murdered, further east, by the time that Auschwitz became a major killing facility. Yet while Auschwitz has been remembered, most of the Holocaust has been largely forgotten.”

282. “The word “Auschwitz” has become a metonym for the Holocaust as a whole. Yet the vast majority of Jews had already been murdered, further east, by the time that Auschwitz became a major killing facility. Yet while Auschwitz has been remembered, most of the Holocaust has been largely forgotten.”

— Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder Quote: “We might be tempted to think that our democratic heritage automatically protects us from such threats. This is a misguided reflex.”

283. “We might be tempted to think that our democratic heritage automatically protects us from such threats. This is a misguided reflex.”

— Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder Quote: “The SS began as an organization outside the law, became an organization that transcended the law, and ended up as an organization that undid the law. Because.”

284. “The SS began as an organization outside the law, became an organization that transcended the law, and ended up as an organization that undid the law. Because.”

— Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder Quote: “To forbid analogies makes the Holocaust irrelevant to future generations. If an American child can identify with Anne Frank, an American child might ask what it is like for immigrant children to be separated from their parents. To forbid analogies is to forbid learning, and to forbid empathizing. That, sadly, is the point.”

285. “To forbid analogies makes the Holocaust irrelevant to future generations. If an American child can identify with Anne Frank, an American child might ask what it is like for immigrant children to be separated from their parents. To forbid analogies is to forbid learning, and to forbid empathizing. That, sadly, is the point.”

— Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder Quote: “Whoever can pierce your privacy can humiliate you and disrupt your relationships at will. No.”

286. “Whoever can pierce your privacy can humiliate you and disrupt your relationships at will. No.”

— Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder Quote: “We learned to say that there was “no alternative” to the basic order of things, a sensibility that the Lithuanian political theorist Leonidas Donskis called “liquid evil.”

287. “We learned to say that there was “no alternative” to the basic order of things, a sensibility that the Lithuanian political theorist Leonidas Donskis called “liquid evil.”

— Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder Quote: “Realize that some of what is on the internet is there to harm you.”

288. “Realize that some of what is on the internet is there to harm you.”

— Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder Quote: “Much needs to be done to fix the gerrymandered system so that each citizen has one equal vote, and so that each vote can be simply counted by a fellow citizen.”

289. “Much needs to be done to fix the gerrymandered system so that each citizen has one equal vote, and so that each vote can be simply counted by a fellow citizen.”

— Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder Quote: “For tyrants, the lesson of the Reichstag fire is that one moment of shock enables an eternity of submission. For.”

290. “For tyrants, the lesson of the Reichstag fire is that one moment of shock enables an eternity of submission. For.”

— Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder Quote: “As they knew, Aristotle warned that inequality brought instability, while Plato believed that demagogues exploited free speech to install themselves as tyrants.”

291. “As they knew, Aristotle warned that inequality brought instability, while Plato believed that demagogues exploited free speech to install themselves as tyrants.”

— Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder Quote: “Influential Americans such as Charles Lindbergh opposed war with the Nazis under the slogan “America First.” It.”

292. “Influential Americans such as Charles Lindbergh opposed war with the Nazis under the slogan “America First.” It.”

— Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder Quote: “There is no doctrine called extremism. When tyrants speak of extremists, they just mean people who are not in the mainstream – as the tyrants themselves are defining.”

293. “There is no doctrine called extremism. When tyrants speak of extremists, they just mean people who are not in the mainstream – as the tyrants themselves are defining.”

— Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder Quote: “Words written in one situation make sense only in that context. The very act of removing them from their historical moment and dropping them in another is an act of falsification.”

294. “Words written in one situation make sense only in that context. The very act of removing them from their historical moment and dropping them in another is an act of falsification.”

— Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder Quote: “When we think of the Nazi Holocaust of the Jews, we imagine Auschwitz and mechanized impersonal death. This was a convenient way for Germans to remember the Holocaust, since they could claim that few of them had known exactly what had happened behind those gates. In fact, the Holocaust began not in the death facilities, but over shooting pits in eastern Europe.”

295. “When we think of the Nazi Holocaust of the Jews, we imagine Auschwitz and mechanized impersonal death. This was a convenient way for Germans to remember the Holocaust, since they could claim that few of them had known exactly what had happened behind those gates. In fact, the Holocaust began not in the death facilities, but over shooting pits in eastern Europe.”

— Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder Quote: “A neighbor portrayed as a pig is someone whose land you can take. But those who followed the symbolic logic became victims in their turn. Having turned the poorer peasants against the richer, Soviet power then seized everyone’s land for the new collective farms.”

296. “A neighbor portrayed as a pig is someone whose land you can take. But those who followed the symbolic logic became victims in their turn. Having turned the poorer peasants against the richer, Soviet power then seized everyone’s land for the new collective farms.”

— Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder Quote: “Twelve years later, after all the atrocities, and at the end of a war that Germany had clearly lost, an amputated soldier told Klemperer that Hitler “has never lied yet. I believe in Hitler.”

297. “Twelve years later, after all the atrocities, and at the end of a war that Germany had clearly lost, an amputated soldier told Klemperer that Hitler “has never lied yet. I believe in Hitler.”

— Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder Quote: “We find it natural that we pay for a plumber or a mechanic, but demand our news for free.”

298. “We find it natural that we pay for a plumber or a mechanic, but demand our news for free.”

— Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder Quote: “We need paper ballots, because they cannot be tampered with remotely and can always be recounted.”

299. “We need paper ballots, because they cannot be tampered with remotely and can always be recounted.”

— Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder Quote: “In the late nineteenth century, just as in the late twentieth century, the expansion of global trade generated expectations of progress.”

300. “In the late nineteenth century, just as in the late twentieth century, the expansion of global trade generated expectations of progress.”

— Timothy Snyder

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