“two world wars had habituated almost everyone to the inevitability of government intervention in daily life.” — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“Moreover, it was social democracy and the welfare state that bound the professional and commercial middle classes to liberal institutions in the… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“Keynes knew perfectly well that fascist economic policy could never have succeeded in the long-run without war, occupation and exploitation.” — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
The rottenness of politics in Yugoslavia didn't come as a surprise. The main lesson is that this is a war which could… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“The priorities of the traditional state were defense, public order, the prevention of epidemics and the aversion of mass discontent. But following… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“War, in short, concentrated the mind. It had proven possible to convert a whole country into a war machine around a war… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
I believe that if we think back to the period from F.D.R. through, let us say, Bush I, until the end of… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
We need to learn... how war brutalises and degrades winners and losers alike and what happens to us when, having heedlessly waged… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“For three decades following the war, economists, politicians, commentators and citizens all agreed that high public expenditure, administered by local or national… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Although the United States lost a quarter of a million men and women, civilians and soldiers, in World War II, that's considerably… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Yugoslavia served as a reminder that the lessons of World War Two were only partially learned. There's a great line someone wrote… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
The Second World War had a precipitating effect in that it discredited the empires, as well as bankrupting them. Not only could… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“Familiarity reduces insecurity, so we feel more comfortable describing and combating the risks we think we understand: terrorists, immigrants, job loss or… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“In a certain sense the country of ‘Russia’ as such did not exist: it had for centuries been an empire, whether in… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
It's important to remember that World War II was experienced very much as a continuity in that sense. Most of World War… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“We no longer have political movement. While thousands of us may come together for a rally or march, we are bound together… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
The American financial and military commitment really only kicks in with Korea. Not that Korea was the real game for the Americans;… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
I don't believe in an afterlife. I don't believe in a single or multiple godhead. I respect people who do, but I don't believe… — Tony Judt Copy Share
“Markets do not automatically generate trust, cooperation or collective action for the common good. Quite the contrary: it is in the nature of economic… — Tony Judt Copy Share
“ Lieux de memoire . . . 'exist because there are no longer any milieux de memoire , settings in which memory is a… — Tony Judt Copy Share
“Keynes died in 1946, exhausted by his wartime efforts. But he had long since demonstrated that neither capitalism nor liberalism would survive very long… — Tony Judt Copy Share
The Second World War had a precipitating effect in that it discredited the empires, as well as bankrupting them. Not only could you no… — Tony Judt Copy Share
“That the state might exceed its remit and damage the market by distorting its operations was not taken very seriously in these years.” — Tony Judt Copy Share
“Whatever their other differences, French Gaullists, Christian Democrats and Socialists shared a common faith in the activist state, economic planning and large-scale public investment.… — Tony Judt Copy Share
I think if I'm controversial it's not because I set out to be. It's because I've never felt comfortable being part of someone else's… — Tony Judt Copy Share
“This reduction of 'society' to a thin membrane of interactions between private individuals is presented today as the ambition of libertarians and free marketeers.… — Tony Judt Copy Share
“Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material… — Tony Judt Copy Share
We have responsibilities for others, not just across space but across time. We have responsibilities to people who came before us. They left us… — Tony Judt Copy Share
“What did trust, cooperation, progressive taxation and the interventionist state bequeath to western societies in the decades following 1945? The short answer is, in… — Tony Judt Copy Share
Healthcare reform is a paradigmatic case. It is self-evidently necessary and inevitable and has been on the agenda for 35 years, and the political… — Tony Judt Copy Share
