Timothy D. Snyder Quotes

It is in the power of every individual to do that which the community as a whole is powerless to effect.

Wars and elections are both too big and too small to matter in the long run. The daily work - that goes on, it adds up.

I guess one person can make a difference.

A lot of my work concerns a crisis of agency - what can we do?

So, what we do as individuals matters. It adds up.

The thing that always strikes me is how much power one person has. Everybody has so much power to help and to change if they just exercise it and get after it.

Change happens from the bottom up - all of us as individuals deciding that we will and we do have an impact.

I have 2 million Twitter followers. Some of those people are also yogis and activists and people who really go out and make a difference. I do as much as I can with my voice. It's effortless in some cases. I try to remind everybody that they have that kind of voice.

The only way to change is to vote. People are responsible.

It is not one government or another that can solve all of the problems. It's you.

If you don't like what's going on, you have to get involved.

When we choose for ourselves, we also choose for others.

I'm not going to change the world. You're not going to change the world. But we can help - we can all help.

It takes time for people to understand how, as an individual, I can have an impact on the way that society works.

I sometimes joke that I can take personal responsibility for saving one million human relationships.

When you've wised up enough, there is a very clear conclusion that you have to reach after a while, which is, at the end of the day, it is really impossible for one person to make a difference.

Every word you utter to another human being has an effect, but you don't know it. If people begin to understand that change comes about as a result of a million tiny acts that seem totally insignificant, well then, they wouldn't hesitate to take those tiny acts.

If we knew how often the obedience of others is affected by our own, and how often our stepping forth soon brings forth a whole platton of helpers, and how often our speaking forth soon creates a chorus - we would be even more ashamed of our slackess and our silence.

I fail to understand why gethes (Humans), talk about individuals versus society. They are the same thing. The action of every individual counts, and those individual acts of personal responsibility accumulate to create society. Snowflakes are equally blind to their role in causing avalanches.

My life is unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life is unkind, but I can vote for kindness.

I'd like to transform the system in very fundamental ways, but you've got to do that in every way that you can. You can't wait for some magic bullet or some magic politician or some magic anything to have that happen. You got to get out there and use your vote.

An individual action, multiplied by millions, creates global change.

God has so ordered this world that no one can keep his goodness or badness exclusively to himself.

Changing the world doesn't happen all at once. It isn't a big bang. It's an evolution, the sum of a billion tiny sparks. And some of those sparks will have to come from you.

Understand and be confident that each of us can make a difference by caring and acting in small as well as big ways.