I would say that I have become more radical as I have gotten older. I started out very radical when I was… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I've learned anything new about life; but I've had to think harder about death and what comes after for… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
No one wants to live in a wheelchair unable to talk, only winking once for yes and twice for no. It's perfectly… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“life closely track your income: residents of wealthy districts can expect to live longer and better.” — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“The materialistic and selfish quality of contemporary life is not inherent in the human condition. Much of what appears ‘natural’ today dates… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“I prefer the edge: the place where countries, communities, allegiances, affinities, and roots bump uncomfortably up against one another—where cosmopolitanism is not… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“Ever since 1792 the Revolutionary and counter-Revolutionary poles of French public life exemplified and reinforced the two-fold division of the country: for… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
American social arrangements, economic arrangements, the degree of inequality in American life, the relatively small role played by the government in American… — 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
“As recently as the 1970s, the idea that the point of life was to get rich and that governments existed to facilitate… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“Inequality, then, is not just unattractive in itself; it clearly corresponds to pathological social problems that we cannot hope to address unless… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“For anyone born after 1945, the welfare state and its institutions were not a solution to earlier dilemmas: they were simply the… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
I was born accidentally. I lived accidentally in London. We nearly migrated to New Zealand. So much of my life has been… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
I don't want to be the passively alert vegetable in the corner that takes in everything but can't communicate, which I think… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
As recently as the 1970s, the idea that the point of life was to get rich and that governments existed to facilitate… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“two world wars had habituated almost everyone to the inevitability of government intervention in daily life.” — 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 Image
“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 Image
“ Lieux de memoire . . . 'exist because there are no longer any milieux de memoire , settings in which memory is a… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
“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 Image
“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 Image
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 Image
