"Why is it that here in the United……" — Tony Judt
"Why is it that here in the United States we have such difficulty even imagining a different sort of society from the one whose dysfunctions and inequalities trouble us so?"
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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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I saw a muskrat come out of a hole in the ice ... While I am looking at him, I…
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And there is quite a different sort of conversation around a fire than there is in the shadow of a…
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And I will love words for their own sake, like 'hyacinth' and 'Piccadilly' and 'onyx.' And I'll have a good…
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It's a different sort of love taht puts up with illness. Old love.
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Why we started the agency to begin with is to tell stories, and the tools that we're using are constantly…
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The novels take longer to write than the picture book texts, and they do take a different sort of concentration.…
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I'm not saying that it's wrong to make huge Hollywood films but it's just a different kind of feeling, a…
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