# Timothy Snyder - Ukraine Holds the Future (Highlights) ![rw-book-cover|256](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article1.be68295a7e40.png) ## Metadata **Review**:: [readwise.io](https://readwise.io/bookreview/19556768) **Source**:: #from/readwise **Zettel**:: #zettel/fleeting **Status**:: #x **Authors**:: [[Timothy Snyder]] **Full Title**:: Ukraine Holds the Future **Category**:: #articles #readwise/articles **Category Icon**:: 📰 **URL**:: [www.foreignaffairs.com](https://www.foreignaffairs.com/ukraine/ukraine-war-democracy-nihilism-timothy-snyder) **Host**:: [[www.foreignaffairs.com]] **Highlighted**:: [[2022-10-09]] **Created**:: [[2022-10-12]] ## Highlights - Something similar can be said of democracy: it can be made only by people who want to make it and in the name of values they affirm by taking risks for them. ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1543637227/20917362)) ^394839439 - Zelensky made this point in one of his evening addresses this March: that falsehood demands violence, not because violence can make falsehood true, but because it can kill or humiliate people who have the courage to speak truth to power. ([View Highlight](https://instapaper.com/read/1543637227/20917386)) ^394839440