HC Russell

“From regarding the body as an object, it is a short step to regarding it as a commodity. It seems normal in the United States to see the body as a source of profit.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Freedom

“Although sometimes presented as the natural result of capitalism, the American Dream depended on social policies developed after the capitalist collapse of the Great Depression. It lasted until its origins were forgotten and capitalism itself was enthroned as the lone source of freedom. That happened in the 1980s.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Freedom

“When we are very young, we all need someone else's goodwill if we are to learn to stand at all. Because we live in time in a certain direction, we cannot make up later for what we were not given earlier.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Freedom

“In dehumanizing others, we make ourselves unfree.”
― Timothy Snyder, On Freedom