All Tony Judt Quotes
- If we remain grotesquely unequal, we shall lose all sense of fraternity: and fraternity, for all its fatuity as a political objective, turns out to… All
- Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine alternatives. All
- Love, it seems to me, is the condition in which one is most contentedly oneself. Condition
- All modern U.S. presidents are perforce politicians, prisoners of their past pronouncements, their party, their constituency, and their colleagues. All
- If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants Abandon
- If words fall into disrepair, what will substitute? They are all we have All
- We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth. Cost
- Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish. Consists
- The military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of its totality. Aspect
- Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over. Emotes
- Israel today is bad for the Jews, Bad
- It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the… Age
- We have responsibilities for others, not just across space but across time. We have responsibilities to people who came before us. They left us a… Across
- If we have learned nothing else from the 20th century, we should at least have grasped that the more perfect the answer, the more terrifying… All
- The people whose necks hurt when I write about the Middle East tend to live in Brooklyn or Boca Raton: the kind of Zionist who… Another Man
- We need to learn... how war brutalises and degrades winners and losers alike and what happens to us when, having heedlessly waged war for no… Alike
- Apparently, the line you take on Israel trumps everything else in life. Apparently
- At a certain point, to remain slightly tangential to wherever I was became a way of 'being Tony': by not being anything that everyone else… Became
- But I'm English. We don't do uplifting. English
- History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same. Always Happens