Excerpts: “When the men with guns who have always claimed to be against the system start wearing uniforms and marching with torches and pictures of a leader, the end is nigh. When the pro-leader paramilitary and the official police and military intermingle, the end has come” (p. 42).

“Post-truth is pre-fascism” (p. 71).

“It is your ability to discern facts that makes you an individual, and our collective trust in common knowledge that makes us a society” (p. 73).

“We are free only when it is we ourselves who draw the line between when we are seen and when we are not seen” (p. 86).

“For tyrants, the lesson of the the Reichstag fire is that one moment of shock enables an eternity of submission. For us, the lesson is that our natural fear and grief must not enable the destruction of our institutions” (p. 110).

“A patriot, by contrast, wants the nation to live up to its ideals, which means asking us to be our best selves” (p. 114).

Snyder, Timothy (2017). On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century. New York: Tim Duggan Books.