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Timothy Snyder Famous Quotes & Sayings
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some supporters of the unrestrained free market have found that dogma: the claim that science is nothing more than politics.
When the Holocaust is blamed on the modern state, the weakening of state authority appears salutary.
People who assure you that you can only gain security at the price of liberty usually want to deny you both. You
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.
the Nazis first and the Soviets later made efforts to direct responsibility for the killing of the Jews to the countries they both invaded. Certainly
Nazi storm troopers began as a security detail clearing the halls of Hitler's opponents during his rallies. As
You submit to tyranny when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear and what is actually the case.
Most of the states of Europe had no prospect of social transformation, and thus little ability to rival or counter the Nazis and the Soviets.
The history of the Holocaust is not over. Its precedent is eternal, and its lessons have not yet been
The racist and colonial idea that the Holocaust began as an elemental explosion of primitive antisemitism arose as Nazi propaganda and apologetics.
All in all, the purification of the armed forces, state institutions, and the communist party led to about fifty thousand executions.
to surrender freedom in the name of safety, we should be on our guard. There is no necessary tradeoff between the two.
When we lack a sense of past and future, the present feels like a shaky platform, an uncertain basis for action.
These forms of counterglobal thinking increase the possibility that particular groups can be blamed for planetary phenomena.
Aristotle warned that inequality brought instability, while Plato believed that demagogues exploited free speech to install themselves as tyrants.
Protest can be organized through social media, but nothing is real that does not end on the streets. If
defense of states and rights is impossible to undertake if no one learns from the past or believes in the future.
Yet if states were destroyed, local institutions corrupted, and economic incentives directed towards murder, few of us would behave well.
all major German crimes took place in areas where state institutions had been destroyed, dismantled, or seriously compromised.
The ideal capitalism envisioned by advocates of the free market depends upon social virtues and wise policies that it does not itself generate.
Beijing's preferred method of control, in Russia as in Africa, has been legal contracts on terms advantageous to itself.
The point of politics is to keep multiple and irreducible goods in play, rather than yielding to some dream, Nazi or otherwise, of totality. -
The predominant view was that budgets should be balanced and money supplies tightened. This, as we know today, only made matters worse.
The logic of the system they devised was to mitigate the consequences of our real imperfections, not to celebrate our imaginary perfection.
fringe groups representing national minorities who could imagine that somehow the destruction of states provided opportunities.
people must find themselves in places that are not their homes, and among groups who were not previously their friends. Protest
Influential Americans such as Charles Lindbergh opposed war with the Nazis under the slogan "America First." It
Russians who voted in 1990 did not think that this would be the last free and fair election in their country's history, which (thus far) it has been.