Maddy

“The mistake is to assume that rulers who came to power through institutions cannot change or destroy those very institutions--even when that is exactly what they have announced that they will do. Revolutionaries sometimes do intend to destroy institutions all at once. This was the approach of the Russian Bolsheviks. Sometimes institutions are deprived of vitality and function, turned into a simulacrum of what they once were, so that they gird the new order rather than resisting it.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

“I didn’t want to die because I hated myself; I wanted to die because I loved myself enough to want this pain to end.”
― Martha Manning, Undercurrents: A Life Beneath the Surface

“History does not repeat, but it does instruct.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

“Realize that you can’t let the feelings of others make you live less.”
― Arden Rose, Almost Adulting: All You Need to Know to Get It Together