Sheila

“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.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: The Book to Help You Understand Why Democracy Is Failing

“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.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century

“Some wanted the freedom to be anyone they wanted, some of us wanted the freedom to be left alone.”
― Dot Hutchison, The Butterfly Garden

“Life is political, not because the world cares about how you feel, but because the world reacts to what you do.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century