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Inspirational Quotes by Tony Judt
- 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…
- Love, it seems to me, is the condition in which one is most contentedly oneself.
- If words fall into disrepair, what will substitute? They are all we have
- We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.
- Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.
- Israel today is bad for the Jews,
- Apparently, the line you take on Israel trumps everything else in life.
- 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…
- But I'm English. We don't do uplifting.
- History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same.
- I don't much mind being expelled from communities.
- I know exactly how and where I am going to die. The only question is when.
- It does irritate me when I am described as a controversialist and commentator on Israel.
- Reality is a powerful solvent.
- The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated, inevitably - as it now appears to me - by those not exclusively dependent upon them.
- We are not merely historians but also and always citizens.
- I was born accidentally. I lived accidentally in London. We nearly migrated to New Zealand. So much of my life has been a product of…
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- By its very nature the beautiful is isolated from everything else. From beauty no road leads to reality. — Hannah Arendt
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- Action without a name, a who attached to it, is meaningless. — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
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- Perugia is my true fatherland because there I grew to manhood. — Pietro Aretino
- I want to do what I want when I want to do it not be dictated to by audiences. — Dario Argento
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- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento