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Quotes from On Tyranny — Timothy D. Snyder

born 1969 United States

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Americans today are no wiser than the Europeans who saw democracy yield to fascism, Nazism, or communism in the twentieth century.

On Tyranny (2017)

The mistake is to assume that rulers who came to power through institutions cannot change or destroy those very institutions...

On Tyranny (2017)

Fascists rejected reason... denying objective truth in favor of glorious myth articulated by leaders who claimed to give voice to the people.

On Tyranny (2017)

Since the American colonies declared their independence... [m]any... democracies... failed, in circumstances that in some important respects resemble our own.

On Tyranny (2017)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Timothy D. Snyder (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.