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People who assure you that you can only gain security at the price of liberty usually want to deny you both.
Timothy Snyder • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
The way to destroy all rules, he explained, was to focus on the idea of the exception. A Nazi leader outmaneuvers his opponents by manufacturing a general conviction that the present moment is exceptional, and then transforming that state of exception into a permanent emergency. Citizens then trade real freedom for fake safety.
Timothy Snyder • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
The European history of the twentieth century shows us that societies can break, democracies can fall, ethics can collapse, and ordinary men can find themselves standing over death pits with guns in their hands.
Timothy Snyder • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
In this way the notion of extremism comes to mean virtually everything except what is, in fact, extreme: tyranny.
Timothy Snyder • On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
Fascism: A Warning
