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Today, neither Left nor Right can find their footing. — Tony Judt

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 it myself. — Tony Judt

I don't much mind being expelled from communities. — Tony Judt

Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past. — Tony Judt

All around us we see a level of individual wealth unequaled since the early years of the 20th century. — Tony Judt

Inequality is corrosive. It rots societies from within. — Tony Judt

Politically speaking, ours is an age of the pygmies. — Tony Judt

But I'm English. We don't do uplifting. — Tony Judt

But at least their provision was universal, and for good and ill they were regarded as a public responsibility. — Tony Judt

The narcissism of student movements, new Left ideologues and the popular culture of the '60s generation invited a conservative backlash. — Tony Judt

We are all the beneficiaries of those who went before us, as well as those who will care for us in old age or ill health. — Tony Judt

Dialectics, as a veteran communist explained ... 'is the art and technique of always landing on your feet. — Tony Judt

For the postwar peace, he preferred to minimize direct government intervention and manipulate the economy through fiscal and other incentives. — Tony Judt

Loss is loss, and nothing is gained by calling it by a nicer name. — Tony Judt

At a certain point, to remain slightly tangential to wherever I was became a way of 'being Tony': by not being anything that everyone else was. — Tony Judt

If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants — Tony Judt

Israel today is bad for the Jews, — Tony Judt

As citizens of a free society, we have a duty to look critically at our world. But if we think we know what is wrong, we must act upon that knowledge. — Tony Judt

History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same. — Tony Judt

open societies will once again be urged to close in upon themselves, sacrificing freedom for 'security'. — Tony Judt

When you are in my classroom, you get everything from me. But you bloody well better give everything too. — Tony Judt

Apparently, the line you take on Israel trumps everything else in life. — Tony Judt

What, then, should we have learned from 1989? Perhaps, above all, that nothing is either necessary or inevitable. — Tony Judt

We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth. — Tony Judt

I don't believe that one should have one-size-fits-all moral rules for international political action. — Tony Judt

I do think we're on the edge of a terrifying world, and that many young people know that but don't know how to talk about it. — Tony Judt

We need to rediscover how to talk about change: how to imagine very different arrangements for ourselves, free of the dangerous cant of 'revolution'. — Tony Judt

The military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of its totality. — Tony Judt

Finding a homeland is not the same as dwelling in the place where our ancestors once used to live. - KRZYSZTOF CZYZEWSKI — Tony Judt

Unsurprisingly, planning was most admired and advocated at the political extremes. — Tony Judt

After 1945 what happened was rather the opposite: with one major exception boundaries stayed broadly intact and people were moved instead. — Tony Judt

You don't have to be Jewish to understand the history of Europe in the 20th century, but it helps. — Tony Judt

If there were a party of those who aren't sure they're right, I'd belong to it.
~(Camus, as quoted by Tony Judt) — Albert Camus

Ask ... what it is about all-embracing 'systems' of thought that leads inexorably to all-embracing 'systems' of rule. — Tony Judt

Thinking 'economistically', as we have done now for thirty years, is not intrinsic to humans. — Tony Judt

I'm not sure I've learned anything new about life; but I've had to think harder about death and what comes after for other people. — Tony Judt

However, there is something worse than idealizing the past - or presenting it to ourselves and our children as a chamber of horrors: forgetting it. — Tony Judt

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

Values such as these derived from longstanding religious or communitarian practices. — Tony Judt

The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated, inevitably - as it now appears to me - by those not exclusively dependent upon them. — Tony Judt

All modern U.S. presidents are perforce politicians, prisoners of their past pronouncements, their party, their constituency, and their colleagues. — Tony Judt

Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine alternatives. — Tony Judt

By the late '60s, the culture gap separating young people from their parents was perhaps greater than at any point since the early 19th century. — Tony Judt

Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world. — Tony Judt

Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over. — Tony Judt

I've lost count of the interviews I've done about my illness and its relationship to my ideas and writing. — Tony Judt

I grew up in a world where the social democratic state was the norm, not the exception. — Tony Judt

If words fall into disrepair, what will substitute? They are all we have — Tony Judt

a political class deeply sensitive to its moral and social responsibilities. — Tony Judt

Today's schoolchildren and college students can imagine little else but the search for a lucrative job. — Tony Judt

It does irritate me when I am described as a controversialist and commentator on Israel. — Tony Judt

Reality is a powerful solvent. — Tony Judt

Love, it seems to me, is the condition in which one is most contentedly oneself. — Tony Judt

I know exactly how and where I am going to die. The only question is when. — Tony Judt

I can still boss people around. I can still write. I can still read. I can still eat, and I can still have very strong views. — Tony Judt

We are not merely historians but also and always citizens. — Tony Judt

These days, we take pride in being tough enough to inflict pain on others. — Tony Judt

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books. — Tony Judt

We must distinguish better than some of our predecessors between desirable ends and unacceptable means. — Tony Judt