Europe Quotes by Tony Judt

9 Europe quotes by Tony Judt

Judt’s nine brief quotes blend his scholarly depth with a clear view of European history, offering a concise window into his analysis.

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“The European dilemma is”

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You don't have to be Jewish to understand the history of Europe in the 20th century, but it helps.

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“Today, neither Left nor Right can find their footing.”

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For Europe to play a part in the world on the scale of its wealth and its population and its capacities, Europe…

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“If it is to be taken seriously again, the Left must find its voice. There is much to be angry about: growing…

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I just like being on my own on trains, traveling. I spent all my pocket money travelling the London Underground and Southern…

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“Post-national, welfare-state, cooperative, pacific Europe was not born of the optimistic, ambitious, forward-looking project imagined in fond retrospect by today's Euro-idealists. It…

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There were various different keys in which European history had tended to be written. One is the lyrical key, the idea that…

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“And yet, for all its faults as a system of indirect government, the Union has certain interesting and original attributes. Decisions and…

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“Keynes died in 1946, exhausted by his wartime efforts. But he had long since demonstrated that neither capitalism nor liberalism would survive very long…

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The Second World War had a precipitating effect in that it discredited the empires, as well as bankrupting them. Not only could you no…

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“That the state might exceed its remit and damage the market by distorting its operations was not taken very seriously in these years.”

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“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.…

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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…

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“This reduction of 'society' to a thin membrane of interactions between private individuals is presented today as the ambition of libertarians and free marketeers.…

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“Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material…

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“Today, neither Left nor Right can find their footing.”

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We have responsibilities for others, not just across space but across time. We have responsibilities to people who came before us. They left us…

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“What did trust, cooperation, progressive taxation and the interventionist state bequeath to western societies in the decades following 1945? The short answer is, in…

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