“Believe in truth. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom. If nothing is true, then no one can criticize power, because there is no basis upon which to do so. If nothing is true, then all is spectacle. The biggest wallet pays for the most blinding lights.” FactsRealityTruthFreedomMoneyPowerSpectacle Author:Timothy Snyder
“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 upon individualism.” FactsRealityTruthPoliticsIndividualityTyrannyIndividualismPolitical Systems Book:On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century Source: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
“What is truth?” Sometimes people ask this question because they wish to do nothing. Generic cynicism makes us feel hip and alternative even as we slip along with our fellow citizens into a morass of indifference. It is your ability to discern facts that makes you an individual, and our collective trust in common knowledge that makes us a society. The individual who investigates is also the citizen who builds. The leader who dislikes the investigators is a potential tyrant.” FactsTruthKnowledgeSocietyTyrannyIndifferenceTyrantsApathyInvestigation Book:On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century Source: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century