For tyrants, the lesson of the [German] Reichstag fire [of 1933] 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. Courage does not mean not fearing, or not grieving. It does mean recognizing and resisting terror management right away, from the moment of the attack, precisely when it seems most difficult to do so.
-- Timothy Snyder, On Tyranny, p. 110
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