Quotes by : Timothy Snyder

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

Be calm when the unthinkable arrives. Modern tyranny is terror management. When the terrorist attack....

How could a large land empire thrive and dominate in the modern world without reliable access to world....

Life is political, not because the world cares about how you feel, but because the world reacts to what....

Now we will live!” This is what the hungry little boy liked to say, as he toddled along the quiet roadside,....

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

The American and British soldiers who liberated the dying inmates from camps in Germany believed that....

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....