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 was born in 1948, so I'm a '60s kid, and in the '60s everyone talked all the time, endlessly, about socialism… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Nationalist, anti-European, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim public political figures, seem a worrying picture of a possible European future. We could still fall back into… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
The different American experience of the 20th Century is crucial because the lesson of the century for Europe, which essentially is that… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past. — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“The only thing worse than too much government is too little: in failed states, people suffer at least as much violence and… — 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 past was neither as good nor as bad as we suppose: it was just different. If we tell ourselves nostalgic stories,… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“Once upon a time, one looked to society -- or class, or community -- for one's normative vocabulary: what was good for… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
“Western intellectual enthusiasm for Communism tended to peak not in times of ‘goulash Communism’ or ‘Socialism with a human face’, but rather… — 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
