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Tony Judt Quotes

I know exactly how and where I am going to die. The only question is when Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

I’ve lost count of the interviews I’ve done about my illness and its relationship to my ideas and writing Picture Quote #1

Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

History can show you that it was one pile of bad stuff after another. It can also show you that there’s been tremendous progress in knowledge, behaviour, laws, civilisation. It cannot show you that there was a meaning behind it Picture Quote #1

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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 Picture Quote #1

We no longer ask of a judicial ruling or a legislative act: is it good? Is it fair? Is it just? Is it right? Will it help bring about a better society or a better world? Those used to be the political questions, even if they invited no easy answers. We must learn once again to pose them Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

We need to start talking about inequality again; we need to start talking about the inequities and unfairnesses and the injustices of an excessively divided society, divided by wealth, by opportunity, by outcome, by assets and so forth Picture Quote #1

Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over Picture Quote #1

The military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of its totality Picture Quote #1

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Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish Picture Quote #1

We have responsibilities for others, not just across space but across time. We have responsibilities to people who came before us. They left us a world of institutions, ideas or possibilities for which we, in turn, owe them something. One of the things we owe them is not to squander them Picture Quote #1

If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants Picture Quote #1

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I know exactly how and where I am going to die. The only question is when (Tony Judt Quotes) 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 Quotes) I’ve lost count of the interviews I’ve done about my illness and its relationship to my ideas and writing (Tony Judt Quotes) Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past (Tony Judt Quotes) 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 Quotes) History can show you that it was one pile of bad stuff after another. It can also show you that there’s been tremendous progress in knowledge, behaviour, laws, civilisation. It cannot show you that there was a meaning behind it (Tony Judt Quotes) 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 Quotes) We no longer ask of a judicial ruling or a legislative act: is it good? Is it fair? Is it just? Is it right? Will it help bring about a better society or a better world? Those used to be the political questions, even if they invited no easy answers. We must learn once again to pose them (Tony Judt Quotes) 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 (Tony Judt Quotes) We need to start talking about inequality again; we need to start talking about the inequities and unfairnesses and the injustices of an excessively divided society, divided by wealth, by opportunity, by outcome, by assets and so forth (Tony Judt Quotes) Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over (Tony Judt Quotes) The military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of its totality (Tony Judt Quotes) Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish (Tony Judt Quotes) We have responsibilities for others, not just across space but across time. We have responsibilities to people who came before us. They left us a world of institutions, ideas or possibilities for which we, in turn, owe them something. One of the things we owe them is not to squander them (Tony Judt Quotes) If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants (Tony Judt Quotes)

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