Social democracy Quote by Tony Judt

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

“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

“ Lieux de memoire . . . 'exist because there are no longer any milieux de memoire , settings in which memory is a…

— Tony Judt

“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

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

“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

“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

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

“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

“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

“Today, neither Left nor Right can find their footing.”

— Tony Judt

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