"Social democracy does not represent an ideal future;……" — Tony Judt
"Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past."
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59 Quotes by Tony Judt
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If we remain grotesquely unequal, we shall lose all sense of fraternity: and fraternity, for all its fatuity as a…
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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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Democracy is when the indigent, and not the men of property, are the rulers.
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In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the…
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Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms.
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If liberty and equality, as is thought by some, are chiefly to be found in democracy, they will be best…
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Democracy arises out of the notion that those who are equal in any respect are equal in all respects; because…
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Jeans represent democracy in fashion.
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I think, as a general matter, clearly, the United States globally supports the development of democracy and the democratic yearnings…
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Politics, it seems to me, for years, or all too long, has been concerned with right or left instead of…
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Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.
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A functioning, robust democracy requires a healthy educated, participatory followership, and an educated, morally grounded leadership.
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Democracy is not something you put away for ten years, and then in the 11th year you wake up and…
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Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers,…
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