Thirty years Quote by Tony Judt Download Open image ““Over the past thirty years we have thrown all this away.”” — Tony Judt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.9 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Thirty years
“...we have become a throwaway society. Instead of honoring and preserving our past, we tear it down, shove it aside, and just go on… — Beth Hoffman Copy Share Image
“Now, because we have spent so many years convincing the younger people that we are helpless, they believe that we are no longer of… — Velma Wallis Copy Share Image
“I saw that they wanted to kill the past. When we are old, we let it die; when we are young and strong, we… — Henri Barbusse Copy Share Image
“We have not been abandoned. We have, perhaps, in that leaving been given the gift of ourselves in a new, deeper, and more lasting… — Macrina Wiederkehr Copy Share Image
“The trouble with you people is that you've been here for thirty million years and your perspectives are all wrong. You miss so much… — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
“So much history buried underneath. We spend our lives to try to dig it out, but always the present buries it again.” — Tom Harper Copy Share Image
“Too often we don’t realize how great we have it until something is taken away.” — Joel Osteen Copy Share Image
“Coming into the home where I grew up always fills me with a confused nostalgia. Everything is as it has been for thirty years.” — Carol Mason Copy Share Image
“They have tried to squeeze us out, to stamp us into the past. But we are still here. And there are more of us… — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
“...the old are destroying the young by them to die in distant fields, and in response the young are destroying themselves.” — Salman Rushdie 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 without one another. And since the experience of the interwar years had clearly revealed the inability of capitalists to protect their own best interests, the liberal state would have to do it for them whether they… — Tony Judt Copy Share
The Second World War had a precipitating effect in that it discredited the empires, as well as bankrupting them. Not only could you no longer, if you were a colonial subject of France in Africa, look to France as a model of power and influence and civility after what had happened in the war. Nor could the French any longer… — Tony Judt Copy Share
“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. But we should never forget that it was first and above all the dream of Jacobins, Bolsheviks and Nazis: if there is nothing that binds us together as a community or society, then we are utterly… — Tony Judt Copy Share
“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
“1. Who is a Death Warrior? Anyone can be a Death Warrior, not just someone who is terminally ill. We are all terminally ill. A Death Warrior accepts death and makes a commitment to live a certain way, whether it be for one year or thirty years. 2. When does one become a Death Warrior? There is a specific moment… — Francisco X. Stork Copy Share
“Placing his snout on the edge of my bed, Boomer pricks up his ears and widens his smiling eyes when I turn my head towards him. I smile at Boomer. "I guess you want to go for a walk?" Boomer bobs his head in agreement and runs around in a circle. "Okay," I say. I turn over, throw off the… — Jeffrey A. White Copy Share
“You can’t learn to write in college. It’s a very bad place for writers because the teachers always think they know more than you do—and they don’t. They have prejudices. They may like Henry James, but what if you don’t want to write like Henry James? They may like John Irving, for instance, who’s the bore of all time. A… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share
It is not like studying German, where you mull along, in a groping, uncertain way, for thirty years; and at last, just as you think you've got it, they spring the subjunctive on you, and there you are. No- and I see now plainly enough, that the great pity about the German language is, that you can't fall off it… — Mark Twain Copy Share
[When her daughter suggested the President refer in his conversation with foreign dignitaries about lawn care to 'fertilizer' instead of to 'manure':] But remember,… — Bess Truman Copy Share Image
For me, the most relevant factor in my ability to perform well on the rock has to do with my love of climbing. After… — Lynn Hill Copy Share Image
In 1986, I was asked by the then-Dean of Science at the University of British Columbia, Dr. R.C. Miller, Jr., to establish a new… — Michael Smith Copy Share Image
“For thirty years," he said, "I've sailed the seas and seen good and bad, better and worse, fair weather and foul, provisions running out,… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
What'll we do with ourselves this afternoon? And the day after that, and the next thirty years? — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Dr Dean Burk, who has spent more than fifty years in cancer research, mainly at the National Cancer Institute states: 'More people have died… — Dean Burk Copy Share Image
“How often since then has she wondered what might have happened if she'd tried to remain with him; if she’d returned Richard's kiss on… — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“A gentleman in those days consulted his heirs about tree planting. Should you plant a group of copper beeches against a group of white maples over against the ha-ha a quarter of a mile from the house so that the contrast seen from the ball-room windows should be agreeable—in thirty years’ time? In those days thought, in families, went in… — Ford Madox Ford Copy Share
![“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)
![“[When her daughter suggested the President refer in his conversation with foreign dignitaries about lawn care to 'fertilizer' instead of to 'manure':] But remember, it took me almost thirty years to get him to call it manure.” quote by Bess Truman](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4fe/bess-truman-27530_care_when-her-daughter-suggested-the-presiden_25215.jpg)
