Quotes by : Timothy Snyder

Both of these positions, inevitability and eternity, are antihistorical. The only thing that stands between....

Stalin had developed an interesting new theory: that resistance to socialism increases as its successes....

The European history of the twentieth century shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall,....

To abandon facts is to abandon freedom.

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

...But this number, like all the others, must be seen not as 5.7 million, which is an abstraction few....

It is less appealing, but morally more urgent, to understand the actions of the perpetrators. The moral....

The whole notion of disruption is adolescent: It assumes that after the teenagers make a mess, the adults....

Politicians in our times feed their clichés to television, where even those who wish to disagree repeat....

Other forces were at work besides conformism. But without the conformists, the great atrocities would....