When you are in my classroom, you get everything from me. But you bloody well better give everything too. Tony Judt bloodyclassroomgive Change image and share on social
We need to learn... how war brutalises and degrades winners and losers alike and what happens to us when, having heedlessly waged war for no good reason, we are encouraged to inflate and demonise our enemies in order to justify that war's indefinite continuance. Tony Judt alikebrutalisecontinuance 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'm regarded outside New York University as a looney tunes leftie, self-hating Jewish communist; inside the university, I'm regarded as a typical, old-fashioned, white male liberal elitist. I like that. I'm on the edge of both; it makes me feel comfortable. Tony Judt comfortablecommunistedge share on social
It would be suicide in the American academy to show too early an interest beyond your doctoral specialization: charges of everything from charlatanry to ambition would be levied and tenure denied. I've seen this first-hand. Tony Judt academyambitionamerican 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
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
I grew up in a world where the social democratic state was the norm, not the exception. Tony Judt democraticexceptiongrow 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
