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“All of the virtues depend upon truth, and truth depends upon them all. Final truth in this world is unattainable, but its pursuit leads the individual away from unfreedom. The temptation to believe what feels right assails us at all times from all directions. Authoritarianism begins when we can no longer tell the difference between the true and the appealing. At the same time, the cynic who decides that there is no truth at all is the citizen who welcomes the tyrant. Total doubt about all authority is naïveté about the particular authority that reads emotions and breeds cynicism. To seek the truth means finding a way between conformity and complacency, towards individuality.”

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Book:The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

Source: The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

“For the reporters, the heroes of our time”

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Book:The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

Source: The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

“Communication among citizens depends upon equality. At the same time, equality cannot be achieved without facts.”

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Book:The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

Source: The Road to Unfreedom: Russia, Europe, America

“History does not repeat, but it does instruct.”

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Book:On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Source: 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. It would serve us well today to understand why.”

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Book:On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

Source: On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

“Hitler wanted not only to eradicate the Jews; he wanted also to destroy Poland and the Soviet Union as states, exterminate their ruling classes, and kill tens of millions of Slavs (Russians, Ukrainians, Belarusians, Poles).”

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Book:Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

Source: Bloodlands: Europe Between Hitler and Stalin

“The fourteen million were murdered over the course of only twelve years, between 1933 and 1945, while both Hitler and Stalin were in power.”

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Author:Timothy Snyder