Stalin had developed an interesting new theory: that resistance to socialism increases as its successes mount, because its foes resist with greater desperation as they contemplate their final defeat. Thus any problem in the Soviet Union could be defined as an example of enemy action, and enemy action could be defined as evidence of progress. P. 41 Timothy Snyder
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  1. Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war. - Norman Mailer
  2. It is easy to be conspicuously 'compassionate' if others are being forced to pay the cost. - Murray N. Rothbard
  3. If you can convince people that freedom is injustice, they will then believe that slavery is freedom. - Stefan Molyneux
  4. The world, viewed philosophically, remains a series of slave camps, where citizens — tax livestock — labor under the chains of illusion in the service of their masters. - Stefan Molyneux
  5. Communism is the final logic of the dehumanization of man. - Fulton J. Sheen
More Quotes By Timothy Snyder
  1. Politicians in our times feed their clichés to television, where even those who wish to disagree repeat them. Television purports to challenge political language by conveying images, but the succession from one frame to another can hinder a sense of resolution. Everything happens fast, but...
  2. No major war or act of mass killing in the twentieth century began without the aggressors or perpetrators first claiming innocence and victimhood.
  3. To abandon facts is to abandon freedom.
  4. Believe in truth. 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...
  5. Most the power of authoritarianism is freely given.
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