There is nothing to be said for being crippled. You don't see the world better or clearer, nor do you develop some… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
As citizens of a free society, we have a duty to look critically at our world. But if we think we know… — 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
For Europe to play a part in the world on the scale of its wealth and its population and its capacities, Europe… — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world. — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
I grew up in a world where the social democratic state was the norm, not the exception. — Tony Judt Copy Share Image
I went to live on a kibbutz, and I'd idealized the world of collective, agrarian work, where everyone was equal, everyone contributed,… — 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
We no longer ask of a judicial ruling or a legislative act: is it good? Is it fair? Is it just? Is… — 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
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
I worry that we have forgotten that the de-ideologized, de-politicized, uncontentious public space of the last 50 years as Europeans have experienced… — 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
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
I think Bush was seen as someone who was disentangling America from the connections that it had with the outside world, that… — 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
![“Lieux de memoire . . . 'exist because there are no longer any milieux de memoire , settings in which memory is a real part of everyday experience.' And what are lieux de memoire ? [They] are . . . vestiges . . . the rituals of a ritual-less society.” quote by Tony Judt](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e56/tony-judt-1730_memory_lieux-de-memoire-exist-because-there-are_21586.jpg)
