# Timothy Snyder - Ukraine Holds the Future (Highlights) ![rw-book-cover|256](https://readwise-assets.s3.amazonaws.com/static/images/article1.be68295a7e40.png) ## 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