On Tyranny Quotes

“The next mode is magical thinking, or the open embrace of contradiction. A billionaire can pay neither taxes nor debts. Liberating the wealthy from taxes will not increase the national debt. Fighting corruption means selling the presidency for favors. A disease that kills hundreds of thousands will vanish. The winner gets fewer votes. The vote is always rigged, and you should vote for me anyway. Black people are taking the vote away from white people, although American history shows that the opposite has been the case.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

“Teresa Prekerowa later became a historian of the Holocaust, writing about the Warsaw ghetto and about others who helped to aid Jews. But she preferred not to write about herself. When, much later, she was asked to speak about her own life, she called her actions normal. From our perspective, her actions seem exceptional. She stood out.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

“without the conformists, the great atrocities would have been impossible.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

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― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century