"As recently as the 1970s, the idea that……" — Tony Judt
"As recently as the 1970s, the idea that the point of life was to get rich and that governments existed to facilitate this would have been ridiculed: not only by capitalism's traditional critics but also by many of its staunchest defenders."
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59 Quotes by Tony Judt
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Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine…
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Love, it seems to me, is the condition in which one is most contentedly oneself.
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All modern U.S. presidents are perforce politicians, prisoners of their past pronouncements, their party, their constituency, and their colleagues.
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If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants
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If words fall into disrepair, what will substitute? They are all we have
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We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.
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Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may…
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The military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of its…
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Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.
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Israel today is bad for the Jews,
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It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young…
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