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Timothy Snyder Quote: “The vast majority of Jews killed in the Holocaust never saw a concentration camp.”

351. “The vast majority of Jews killed in the Holocaust never saw a concentration camp.”

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Timothy Snyder Quote: “Collectivization, when completed, brought starvation to much of the Soviet peasantry. Millions of people in Soviet Ukraine, Soviet Kazakhstan, and Soviet Russia died horrible and humiliating deaths between 1930 and 1933. Before it was over, Soviet citizens were butchering corpses for human meat.”

352. “Collectivization, when completed, brought starvation to much of the Soviet peasantry. Millions of people in Soviet Ukraine, Soviet Kazakhstan, and Soviet Russia died horrible and humiliating deaths between 1930 and 1933. Before it was over, Soviet citizens were butchering corpses for human meat.”

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Timothy Snyder Quote: “The ashes of Warsaw were still warm when the Cold War began.”

353. “The ashes of Warsaw were still warm when the Cold War began.”

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Timothy Snyder Quote: “In Ukraine’s Donetsk, an abandoned factory became an art lab; under Russian occupation, the same building became a torture facility.”

354. “In Ukraine’s Donetsk, an abandoned factory became an art lab; under Russian occupation, the same building became a torture facility.”

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Timothy Snyder Quote: “Insofar as climate denial hinders technical progress, it might hasten real disasters, which in their turn can make catastrophic thinking still more credible.”

355. “Insofar as climate denial hinders technical progress, it might hasten real disasters, which in their turn can make catastrophic thinking still more credible.”

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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.”

356. “When we repeat the same words and phrases that appear in the daily media, we accept the absence of a larger framework.”

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Timothy Snyder Quote: “But is the removal of something in the world really enough to liberate us? Is it not as important, perhaps even more important, to add things?”

357. “But is the removal of something in the world really enough to liberate us? Is it not as important, perhaps even more important, to add things?”

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Timothy Snyder Quote: “It can feel strange to do or say something different. But without that unease, there is no freedom.”

358. “It can feel strange to do or say something different. But without that unease, there is no freedom.”

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Timothy Snyder Quote: “Hitler foresaw a “resolution of the Polish problem” by the murder of those who might be regarded as fully human.”

359. “Hitler foresaw a “resolution of the Polish problem” by the murder of those who might be regarded as fully human.”

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Timothy Snyder Quote: “The absence of freedom threatens life, just as threats to life undermine freedom.”

360. “The absence of freedom threatens life, just as threats to life undermine freedom.”

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Timothy Snyder Quote: “What does it mean that six of the president’s companies have gone bankrupt, and that the president’s enterprises have been financed by mysterious infusions of cash from entities in Russia and Kazakhstan?”

361. “What does it mean that six of the president’s companies have gone bankrupt, and that the president’s enterprises have been financed by mysterious infusions of cash from entities in Russia and Kazakhstan?”

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Timothy Snyder Quote: “Why then should we form our political judgment on the basis of zero investment? We get what we pay for.”

362. “Why then should we form our political judgment on the basis of zero investment? We get what we pay for.”

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Timothy Snyder Quote: “Even as Kasich and Rubio took a stand on Russian foreign policy, the crucial Republican legislators surrendered in advance to Russian cyberattack. It was more important to humiliate a black president than it was to defend the independence of the United States of America. That is how wars are lost.”

363. “Even as Kasich and Rubio took a stand on Russian foreign policy, the crucial Republican legislators surrendered in advance to Russian cyberattack. It was more important to humiliate a black president than it was to defend the independence of the United States of America. That is how wars are lost.”

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Timothy Snyder Quote: “In the 1990s, Trump Tower was one of only two buildings in New York City to allow anonymous purchases of apartment units, an opportunity that the Russian mob quickly exploited.”

364. “In the 1990s, Trump Tower was one of only two buildings in New York City to allow anonymous purchases of apartment units, an opportunity that the Russian mob quickly exploited.”

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Timothy Snyder Quote: “No accumulation of good, no matter how vast, undoes an evil; no rescue of the future, no matter how successful, undoes a murder in the past.”

365. “No accumulation of good, no matter how vast, undoes an evil; no rescue of the future, no matter how successful, undoes a murder in the past.”

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Timothy Snyder Quote: “In dehumanizing others, we make ourselves unfree.”

366. “In dehumanizing others, we make ourselves unfree.”

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Timothy Snyder Quote: “When the Holocaust is blamed on the modern state, the weakening of state authority appears salutary.”

367. “When the Holocaust is blamed on the modern state, the weakening of state authority appears salutary.”

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Timothy Snyder Quote: “Effective prevention of mass killings is incremental and its heroes are invisible.”

368. “Effective prevention of mass killings is incremental and its heroes are invisible.”

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Timothy Snyder Quote: “People who lie about the end of the world will keep lying until the world ends.”

369. “People who lie about the end of the world will keep lying until the world ends.”

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Timothy Snyder Quote: “We enable freedom not by rejecting government, but by affirming freedom as the guide to good government.”

370. “We enable freedom not by rejecting government, but by affirming freedom as the guide to good government.”

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Timothy Snyder Quote: “Lacking a functional state that assured basic social goods taken for granted elsewhere – education, pensions, health care, transport, parental leave, vacations – Americans could be overwhelmed by each day, and lose a sense of the future.”

371. “Lacking a functional state that assured basic social goods taken for granted elsewhere – education, pensions, health care, transport, parental leave, vacations – Americans could be overwhelmed by each day, and lose a sense of the future.”

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Timothy Snyder Quote: “When we are very young, we all need someone else’s goodwill if we are to learn to stand at all. Because we live in time in a certain direction, we cannot make up later for what we were not given earlier.”

372. “When we are very young, we all need someone else’s goodwill if we are to learn to stand at all. Because we live in time in a certain direction, we cannot make up later for what we were not given earlier.”

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Timothy Snyder Quote: “Take responsibility for what you communicate with others. “What is truth?”

373. “Take responsibility for what you communicate with others. “What is truth?”

— Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder Quote: “But opposing evil requires inspiration by what is sound rather than by what is resonant.”

374. “But opposing evil requires inspiration by what is sound rather than by what is resonant.”

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Timothy Snyder Quote: “In a world of relativism and cowardice, freedom is the absolute among absolutes, the value of values.”

375. “In a world of relativism and cowardice, freedom is the absolute among absolutes, the value of values.”

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Timothy Snyder Quote: “We talked about how, over time, beginning in youth, an accumulation of decisions makes us who we are. Then a moment comes when we do what we must because of what we have chosen to become. An unfree person can always try to run. But sometimes a free person has to stay. Free will is character.”

376. “We talked about how, over time, beginning in youth, an accumulation of decisions makes us who we are. Then a moment comes when we do what we must because of what we have chosen to become. An unfree person can always try to run. But sometimes a free person has to stay. Free will is character.”

— Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder Quote: “Contribute to good causes.”

377. “Contribute to good causes.”

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Timothy Snyder Quote: “Most governments, most of the time, seek to monopolize violence. If only the government can legitimately use force, and this use is constrained by law, then the forms of politics that we take for granted become possible.”

378. “Most governments, most of the time, seek to monopolize violence. If only the government can legitimately use force, and this use is constrained by law, then the forms of politics that we take for granted become possible.”

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Timothy Snyder Quote: “Where there are local reporters, journalism concerns events that people see and care about. When local reporters disappear, the news becomes abstract. It becomes a kind of entertainment rather than a report about the familiar.”

379. “Where there are local reporters, journalism concerns events that people see and care about. When local reporters disappear, the news becomes abstract. It becomes a kind of entertainment rather than a report about the familiar.”

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Timothy Snyder Quote: “We cannot be neutral: we either deaden the world around us, or we make it more lively.”

380. “We cannot be neutral: we either deaden the world around us, or we make it more lively.”

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Timothy Snyder Quote: “The answer is thoughtful, plural institutions: an unending labor of differentiated creation. This is a matter of imagination, maturity, and survival. We.”

381. “The answer is thoughtful, plural institutions: an unending labor of differentiated creation. This is a matter of imagination, maturity, and survival. We.”

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Timothy Snyder Quote: “We chose freedom when we did not run.”

382. “We chose freedom when we did not run.”

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Timothy Snyder Quote: “Hitler had used an act of terror, an event of limited inherent significance, to institute a regime of terror that killed millions of people and changed the world. The.”

383. “Hitler had used an act of terror, an event of limited inherent significance, to institute a regime of terror that killed millions of people and changed the world. The.”

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Timothy Snyder Quote: “European integration lasted long enough that Europeans could take it for granted, and forget the resonance and power of other political models.”

384. “European integration lasted long enough that Europeans could take it for granted, and forget the resonance and power of other political models.”

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Timothy Snyder Quote: “It was an American and not a Russian innovation to present the news as national entertainment, which made the news vulnerable to an entertainer. Trump got his chance in the second half of 2015 because American television networks were pleased with the spectacle he provided. The chief executive officer of a television network said that the Trump campaign “may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS.”

385. “It was an American and not a Russian innovation to present the news as national entertainment, which made the news vulnerable to an entertainer. Trump got his chance in the second half of 2015 because American television networks were pleased with the spectacle he provided. The chief executive officer of a television network said that the Trump campaign “may not be good for America, but it’s damn good for CBS.”

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Timothy Snyder Quote: “Generic cynicism makes us feel hip and alternative even as we slip along with our fellow citizens into a morass of indifference. It is your ability to discern facts that makes you an individual, and our collective trust in common knowledge that makes us a society. The individual who investigates is also the citizen who builds. The leader who dislikes the investigators is a potential tyrant. During.”

386. “Generic cynicism makes us feel hip and alternative even as we slip along with our fellow citizens into a morass of indifference. It is your ability to discern facts that makes you an individual, and our collective trust in common knowledge that makes us a society. The individual who investigates is also the citizen who builds. The leader who dislikes the investigators is a potential tyrant. During.”

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Timothy Snyder Quote: “None of us remembers being born, but all of us were born. None of us will remember dying, but we remember others dying. Empathy is not just some vague urging to be kind. Empathy is a precondition for certain knowledge of the world. The isolated individual, trying to contemplate the world alone, has no chance at understanding it.”

387. “None of us remembers being born, but all of us were born. None of us will remember dying, but we remember others dying. Empathy is not just some vague urging to be kind. Empathy is a precondition for certain knowledge of the world. The isolated individual, trying to contemplate the world alone, has no chance at understanding it.”

— Timothy Snyder

Timothy Snyder Quote: “When faith descends from heaven to earth in this way, no room remains for the small truths of our individual discernment and experience. What terrified Klemperer was the way that this transition seemed permanent. Once truth had become oracular rather than factual, evidence was irrelevant.”

388. “When faith descends from heaven to earth in this way, no room remains for the small truths of our individual discernment and experience. What terrified Klemperer was the way that this transition seemed permanent. Once truth had become oracular rather than factual, evidence was irrelevant.”

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Timothy Snyder Quote: “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 wearing a bear suit and holding rubles in his mouth.”

389. “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 wearing a bear suit and holding rubles in his mouth.”

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Timothy Snyder Quote: “Germans carried out what they called the “Great Action,” deporting some 265,040 Jews to the death factory at Treblinka to be.”

390. “Germans carried out what they called the “Great Action,” deporting some 265,040 Jews to the death factory at Treblinka to be.”

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Timothy Snyder Quote: “The Great Terror took place during a state of exception that required all policemen to subordinate themselves to the NKVD and its special tasks.”

391. “The Great Terror took place during a state of exception that required all policemen to subordinate themselves to the NKVD and its special tasks.”

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Timothy Snyder Quote: “If you retweet only the work of humans who have followed journalistic protocols, you are less likely to debase your brain interacting with bots and trolls.”

392. “If you retweet only the work of humans who have followed journalistic protocols, you are less likely to debase your brain interacting with bots and trolls.”

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Timothy Snyder Quote: “Without a sense of what should be, we cannot be clear about how what is could ever change.”

393. “Without a sense of what should be, we cannot be clear about how what is could ever change.”

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Timothy Snyder Quote: “The American abolitionist Wendell Phillips did in fact say that “eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.”

394. “The American abolitionist Wendell Phillips did in fact say that “eternal vigilance is the price of liberty.”

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Timothy Snyder Quote: “From regarding the body as an object, it is a short step to regarding it as a commodity. It seems normal in the United States to see the body as a source of profit.”

395. “From regarding the body as an object, it is a short step to regarding it as a commodity. It seems normal in the United States to see the body as a source of profit.”

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