Quotes About Timothy Snyder

When we repeat the same words and phrases that appear in the daily media, we accept the absence of a larger framework. To have such a framework requires more concepts, and having more concepts requires reading.

If the main pillar of the system is living a lie," wrote Havel, "then it is not surprising that the fundamental threat to it is living in truth.

The poet Czes?aw Mi?osz wrote in 1953 that 'only in the middle of the twentieth century did the inhabitants of many European countries come to understand, usually by way of suffering, that complex and difficult philosophy books have a direct influence on their fate.

If the main pillar of the system is living a lie," wrote Havel, "then it is not surprising that the fundamental threat to it is living in truth." Since

but that the production of lawlessness was an appropriate way to find murderers who could be recruited for organized actions.

What the glorious retellings of the history of Irgun and Lehi often omit is the Polish connection.

The psychological and political reasons to overcompensate by insisting on victimhood were strong.