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Timothy D. Snyder Quotes

American - Author | August 18, 1969 -

I thought I was going to grow up and become a diplomat and negotiate nuclear arms.

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Thought Grow Become Grow Up Up Arms

There's a basic problem with the history of the Holocaust. The people who do it don't know the necessary languages.

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History People Problem Holocaust Who

Modern tyrants are terror managers. Do not allow your shock to be turned against your freedom.

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Freedom Modern Tyrants Against Your

Courage does not mean not fearing or not grieving. It does mean recognizing and resisting terror management right away, from the moment of the attack, precisely when it seems most difficult to do so.

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Courage Moment Management Mean Right

Maybe I am naive, but I don't think talking about the Holocaust with total and complete cynicism is possible for Israeli politicians. It's inevitable that the Holocaust is part of Israeli politics.

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Politics I Am Think Talking Possible

It's easy for us to congratulate ourselves on our own moral superiority when compared to the 1930s, but I'm not sure that we're actually right about that. In most of the West, we simply haven't been tested in the same way. And when we are tested, we often fail.

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Easy Moral Way Right Own Fail

For the Russians, the displacement of the Holocaust is calculated and cynical. It's not emotional; they don't care about the Holocaust one way or another. They only care about it insofar as they can use it to manipulate a German sense of guilt.

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Care Guilt Holocaust Way Emotional

I worry about global anti-Semitism - not just as a bad idea that originates from bad people, but also as something that arises as a challenge to global order.

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Challenge People Worry Bad People

Democracy only has substance if there's the rule of law. That is, if people believe that the votes are going to be counted, and they are counted. If they believe that there's a judiciary out there that will make sense of things if there's some challenge. If there isn't rule of law, people will be afraid to vote the way they want to vote.

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Challenge People Law Democracy Vote

If it turns out that there are emotions and values that are more numerous and more vibrant than indifference and hatred, things are going to be okay. That depends on us.

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Values Emotions More Hatred Okay Us

If you want to avoid criticism, then you shouldn't be a historian, because historians are trying to understand and explain. If you're trying to please people, then you should go into the fashion business, or the candy business.

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Business People Fashion Criticism Go

We can only see as much and we can only go as far as our languages take us.

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Go See Take Us Only Far

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