Sheila

“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

“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

“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

“You submit to tyranny when you renounce the difference between what you want to hear and what is actually the case.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century