On Tyranny Timothy Snyder Quotes & Sayings

If none of us is prepared to die for freedom, then all of us will die under tyranny — Timothy Snyder

Food is really and truly the most effective medicine. — Joel Fuhrman

That's why I tell stories: to create readiness, to nudge the people toward receptive insight. In their present state they can stare till doomsday and not see it, listen till they're blue in the face and not get it. — Eugene H. Peterson

Extremism certainly sounds bad, and governments often try to make it sound worse by using the word terrorism in the same sentence. But the word has little meaning. There is no doctrine called extremism. When tyrants speak of extremists, they just mean people who are not in the mainstream - as the tyrants themselves are defining that mainstream at that particular moment. Dissidents of the twentieth century, whether they were resisting fascism or communism, were called extremists. Modern authoritarian regimes, such as Russia, use laws on extremism to punish those who criticize their policies. In this way the notion of extremism comes to mean virtually everything except what is, in fact, extreme: tyranny. — Timothy Snyder

I'm not saying that what the radio plays isn't good. My issue is with what they don't play. You can play Jay-Z, but why don't you play Jurassic 5? You can play Nas and Nelly, but why don't you play J-Live? I want to open up the door to how it was back in the day. — DJ Jazzy Jeff

The claim that order is freedom or that freedom is order ends in tyranny. — Timothy Snyder

Anticipatory obedience is a political tragedy. — Timothy Snyder

Everyone's got intimacy issues these days, in case you hadn't noticed. He must have; the population had been dropping for decades. — Peter Watts

To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. You submit to tyranny when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear and what is actually the case. This renunciation of reality can feel natural and pleasant, but the result is your demise as an individual, and thus the collapse of any political system that depends on individualism — Timothy Snyder

Oh you two look delicious," Bast said, licking her lips. "No, no-er, I mean wonderful. Now, off you go! — Rick Riordan

You submit to tyranny when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear and what is actually the case. — Timothy Snyder

It doesn't matter what your age is, God will use you if you will begin to act and think like a servant. — Rick Warren

No wonder, said an Ancient, that chance has so much power over us, since it is by chance that we live. — Michel De Montaigne

Smart authors, faced with storms, chose to create umbrellas. That's why a diverse group of authors banded together to create The Fiction Writer's Co-op, which will work to find innovative ways to promote each other's work and cheer each other on in a very competitive field. — M.J. Rose

Dead human beings provided retrospective arguments for the rectitude of policy. Hitler and Stalin thus shared a certain politics of tyranny: they brought about catastrophes, blamed the enemy of their choice, and then used the death of millions to make the case that their policies were necessary or desirable. Each of them had a transformative utopia, a group to be blamed when its realization proved impossible, and then a policy of mass murder that could be proclaimed as a kind of ersatz victory. — Timothy Snyder

To be able to play and get loads of people together is really cool. — Colin Greenwood

What worse awareness is there than to know there would have been a better outcome if you'd never done anything at all? — John Irving

My dad said, 'In school, be a Catholic. At home, be a Hindu.' So we did both. — Deepak Chopra

My film is in French. It's not something folkloric. It's who we are. There's this tension about immigrants coming in. Will they learn French? Will they adapt? In this film, I'm on the reverse side because Monsieur Lazhar comes from a society where French is also the second language. — Philippe Falardeau

Human cultural diversity is vast; the range of cultural practices, beliefs, and languages that we speak is vast. — Mark Pagel

Modern tyranny is terror management. When the terrorist attack comes, remember that authoritarians exploit such events in order to consolidate power. The sudden disaster that requires the end of checks and balances, the dissolution of opposition parties, the suspension of freedom of expression, the right to a fair trial, and so on, is the oldest trick in the Hitlerian book. Do not fall for it. — Timothy Snyder

Except that now, for having accused Ravi of an unspecified crime he hadn't committed, I was as good as dead. In years subsequent, when he was in the mood to terrorize me, he would whisper to me, Just wait till we're alone. You're the next goat! — Yann Martel