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 actcitizencritically Change image and share on social
There is nothing to be said for being crippled. You don't see the world better or clearer, nor do you develop some special set of skills by way of compensation. Tony Judt clearcompensationcripple Change image and share on social
Nationalist, anti-European, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim public political figures, seem a worrying picture of a possible European future. We could still fall back into pre-Europe... and it worries me. Tony Judt antibackeurope Change image and share on social
How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else? Tony Judt amendbegingeneration Change image and share on social
I think Bush was seen as someone who was disentangling America from the connections that it had with the outside world, that it found encumbering for domestic purposes. Tony Judt americabushconnection Change image and share on social
I think if I'm controversial it's not because I set out to be. It's because I've never felt comfortable being part of someone else's mainstream community. Tony Judt comfortablecommunitycontroversial Change image and share on social
I was born accidentally. I lived accidentally in London. We nearly migrated to New Zealand. So much of my life has been a product of chance, I can't see a meaning in it at all. Tony Judt accidentallybearchance Change image and share on social
I believe that if we think back to the period from F.D.R. through, let us say, Bush I, until the end of the Cold War, we lived through an artificial period in which American interests and European interests essentially dovetailed. Tony Judt americanartificialback share on social
What I am against is false optimism: the notion either that things have to go well, or else that they tend to, or else that the default condition of historical trajectories is characteristically beneficial in the long-run. Tony Judt beneficialcharacteristicallycondition share on social
I went to live on a kibbutz, and I'd idealized the world of collective, agrarian work, where everyone was equal, everyone contributed, that all this awful European intellectual stuff just fell away. Tony Judt agrarianawfulcollective Change image and share on social
