On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

by Timothy Snyder

History does not repeat, but it does instruct.

History can familiarize, and it can warn.

the fascist style depends upon “endless repetition,” designed to make the fictional plausible.

One coup has been attempted. A failed coup is usually practice for a successful one. The emergency might be more favorable next time, and we cannot afford to be surprised.

a nationalist is not a patriot. A nationalist encourages us to be our worst, and then tells us that we are the best.