I don't believe in an afterlife. I don't believe in a single or multiple godhead. I respect people who do, but I… — 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… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
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
Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine alternatives. — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
I do think we're on the edge of a terrifying world, and that many young people know that but don't know how… — 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
What has gone catastrophically wrong in England and the States is that for 30 years we've lost the ability to talk about… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
After 1945 what happened was rather the opposite: with one major exception boundaries stayed broadly intact and people were moved instead. — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
I can still boss people around. I can still write. I can still read. I can still eat, and I can still… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Obviously a primary liberal conviction is that we should be tolerant of other peoples' convictions. But if we believe in something, we… — 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
Contrast 1968, when the CEO of General Motors took home, in pay and benefits, about sixty-six times the amount paid to a… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
The people whose necks hurt when I write about the Middle East tend to live in Brooklyn or Boca Raton: the kind… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
The 60s were a continuation of the 50s much more than people realized. Certainly in some countries, like Britain, there was still… — 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
