Quotes by Tony Judt

Tony Judt

American social arrangements, economic arrangements, the degree of inequality in American life, the relatively small role played by the government in American public life and so forth, compares to exactly the opposite conditions in most of the European societies.

Degrees

Government

Opposites

As recently as the 1970s, the idea that the point of life was to get rich and that governments existed to facilitate this would have been ridiculed: not only by capitalism’s traditional critics but also by many of its staunchest defenders.

Government

Ideas

Wealth

How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else?

Generations

Obsessed

Wealth

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.

People

Thinking

World

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.

Afterlife

Believe

People

I don’t believe that one should have one-size-fits-all moral rules for international political action.

Believe

Political

Should Have

I don’t much mind being expelled from communities.

Community

Mind

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

Dies

Knows

I’ve lost count of the interviews I’ve done about my illness and its relationship to my ideas and writing.

Done

Ideas

Writing

Israel today is bad for the Jews.

Israel

Jew

Today

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Answers

Believe

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Community

Cost

Country

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Democracy

Dies

Doe

Done

Generations

Ghetto

Goal

Government

Guilt

Historian

Hurt

Ideas

Identity

Important

Israel

Jew

Knows

Leader

Leaving

Left

Men

Military

Mind

Obsessed

Opposites

Past

People

Perfect

Political

Powerful

Reading

Real

Reality

Self

Should Have

Space

Thinking

Today

War

Wealth

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Quotes by Tony Judt

Tony Judt

American social arrangements, economic arrangements, the degree of inequality in American life, the relatively small role played by the government in American public life and so forth, compares to exactly the opposite conditions in most of the European societies.

As recently as the 1970s, the idea that the point of life was to get rich and that governments existed to facilitate this would have been ridiculed: not only by capitalism’s traditional critics but also by many of its staunchest defenders.

How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else?

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.

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.

I don’t believe that one should have one-size-fits-all moral rules for international political action.

I don’t much mind being expelled from communities.

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

I’ve lost count of the interviews I’ve done about my illness and its relationship to my ideas and writing.

Israel today is bad for the Jews.

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