Timothy Snyder Quotes
No major war or act of mass killing in the twentieth century began without the aggressors or perpetrators first claiming innocence and victimhood.
To abandon facts is to abandon freedom.
Most the power of authoritarianism is freely given.
In the politics of the every day, our words and gestures, or their absence, count very much.
Like Hitler, the President used the word lies to mean statements of fact not to his liking and presented journalism as a campaign against himself.
The whole notion of disruption is adolescent: It assumes that after the teenagers make a mess, the adults will come and clean it up. But there are no adults. We own this mess.
Other forces were at work besides conformism. But without the conformists, the great atrocities would have been impossible.
History permits us to be responsible: not for everything, but for something... History gives us the company of those who have done and suffered more than we have.
The vast majority of Jews killed in the Holocaust never saw a concentration camp.