11 quotes found
“To abandon facts is to abandon freedom.”
“Most the power of authoritarianism is freely given.”
“Other forces were at work besides conformism. But without the conformists, the great atrocities would have been impossible.”
“Like Hitler, the President used the word lies to mean statements of fact not to his liking and presented journalism as a campaign against himself.”
“Both of these positions, inevitability and eternity, are antihistorical. The only thing that stands between them is history itself. History allows us to see patterns and make judgments. It sketches...”
“Life is political, not because the world cares about how you feel, but because the world reacts to what you do. The minor choices we make are a kind of vote, making it more or less likely that free...”
“The whole notion of disruption is adolescent: It assumes that after the teenagers make a mess, the adults will come and clean it up. But there are no adults. We own this mess.”
“History permits us to be responsible: not for everything, but for something... History gives us the company of those who have done and suffered more than we have.”
“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 i...”
“Politicians in our times feed their clichs to television, where even those who wish to disagree repeat them. Television purports to challenge political language by conveying images, but the success...”
“Be calm when the unthinkable arrives. Modern tyranny is terror management. When the terrorist attack comes, remember that authoritarians exploit such events in order to consolidate power. The sudde...”
