Quote by Tony Judt Download Open image ““The consequences are clear. There has been a collapse in intergenerational mobility:”” — Tony Judt ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.4 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“The future of our society today lies in the legacy we leave behind for our children.” — Abdulazeez Henry Musa Copy Share Image
“In some sectors of the economy at least, the traditional importance attached to age and hierarchy is beginning to break down.” — Daniel Tudor Copy Share Image
“Our grandchildren will live together in a society with the offspring of neglected families. So will yours.” — T. Berry Brazelton Copy Share Image
“I am a member of the “career-less generation.” Or the “screwed generation.” Unlike previous generations, the members of my generation won’t get jobs and… — Ken Ilgunas Copy Share Image
“The baby boomer generation, my own, is content, if of the Left, to live out our remaining years upon the work and upon the… — David Mamet Copy Share Image
“Invest your evaporating time and leave a legacy behind for future generations.” — Sunday Adelaja Copy Share Image
“If nothing else, I have learned that aging has nothing to do with the accumulation of years. Aging is the inevitable defeat of parents… — Jean Sasson Copy Share Image
“The wrong-doing of one generation lives into the successive ones.” — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
“Our kids are the first generation in the history of America that has a shorter life span than their parents.” — Jen Hatmaker Copy Share Image
“when fertility rates began collapsing in the late 1960s, another demographic transition was occurring, the result of a fundamental restructuring: People no longer put… — Jonathan V. Last Copy Share Image
“Millennials, instead of a danger, are really a reflection of the society in which they grew up in, and in which all of us… — Crystal Kadakia Copy Share Image
“As our kids get older and become adults themselves, there’s a stage we unknowingly pass, from which point forward our role as parents diminishes… — K.L. Slater 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