Tony Judt Quotes
Top 58 wise famous quotes and sayings by Tony Judt
Tony Judt Famous Quotes & Sayings
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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.
All around us we see a level of individual wealth unequaled since the early years of the 20th century.
But at least their provision was universal, and for good and ill they were regarded as a public responsibility.
The narcissism of student movements, new Left ideologues and the popular culture of the '60s generation invited a conservative backlash.
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.
Dialectics, as a veteran communist explained ... 'is the art and technique of always landing on your feet.
For the postwar peace, he preferred to minimize direct government intervention and manipulate the economy through fiscal and other incentives.
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.
If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants
open societies will once again be urged to close in upon themselves, sacrificing freedom for 'security'.
When you are in my classroom, you get everything from me. But you bloody well better give everything too.
What, then, should we have learned from 1989? Perhaps, above all, that nothing is either necessary or inevitable.
I don't believe that one should have one-size-fits-all moral rules for international political action.
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.
We need to rediscover how to talk about change: how to imagine very different arrangements for ourselves, free of the dangerous cant of 'revolution'.
The military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of its totality.
Finding a homeland is not the same as dwelling in the place where our ancestors once used to live. - KRZYSZTOF CZYZEWSKI
After 1945 what happened was rather the opposite: with one major exception boundaries stayed broadly intact and people were moved instead.
My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.
I've lost count of the interviews I've done about my illness and its relationship to my ideas and writing.
Ask ... what it is about all-embracing 'systems' of thought that leads inexorably to all-embracing 'systems' of rule.
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.
However, there is something worse than idealizing the past - or presenting it to ourselves and our children as a chamber of horrors: forgetting it.
That the state might exceed its remit and damage the market by distorting its operations was not taken very seriously in these years.
The pleasures of mental agility are much overstated, inevitably - as it now appears to me - by those not exclusively dependent upon them.
All modern U.S. presidents are perforce politicians, prisoners of their past pronouncements, their party, their constituency, and their colleagues.
Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine alternatives.
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.
Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world.
Today's schoolchildren and college students can imagine little else but the search for a lucrative job.
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.