“ The disposition to admire, and almost to worship, the rich and the powerful, and to despite, or, at least, to neglect, persons of poor and mean condition is the great and most universal cause of the c… Tony Judt
“ The chief shortcoming of the old public services was the restrictive regulations and facilities—one-size-fits-all—with Tony Judt
“ Our disability is discursive: we simply do not know how to talk about these things any more. For the last thirty years, when asking ourselves whether we support a policy, a proposal or an initiative,… Tony Judt
“ More than anything else, the welfare states of the mid-20th century established the profound indecency of defining civic status as a function of economic good fortune. Tony Judt
“ Marxismus je sekulární náboženství – to je evidentní. Ale které náboženství vlastně následuje, není vždycky zřejmé. Zahrnuje v sobě velkou část tradiční křesťanské eschatologie: pád člověka, Mesiáše,… Tony Judt
“ Love, it seems to me, is that condition in which one is most contentedly oneself. If this sounds paradoxical, remember Rilke’s admonition: love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves… Tony Judt
“ If we don’t respect public goods; if we permit or encourage the privatization of public space, resources and services; if we enthusiastically support the propensity of a younger generation to look exc… Tony Judt
“ If it is to be taken seriously again, the Left must find its voice. There is much to be angry about: growing inequalities of wealth and opportunity; injustices of class and caste; economic exploitatio… Tony Judt
“ For the postwar peace, he preferred to minimize direct government intervention and manipulate the economy through fiscal and other incentives. Tony Judt
“ But at least their provision was universal, and for good and ill they were regarded as a public responsibility. Tony Judt
“ Broadly speaking, affairs that were urgently political in Europe aroused only intellectual interest in Britain; while topics of intellectual concern on the Continent were usually confined to academic… Tony Judt
“ Beginning with a handful of outstanding intellectual refugees from interwar Europe, we pass through two generations of academic economists intent on re-configuring their discipline … and arrive at the… Tony Judt
“ As a consequence, the thick mesh of social interactions and public goods has been reduced to a minimum, with nothing except authority and obedience binding the citizen to the state. Tony Judt
“ And yet, for all its faults as a system of indirect government, the Union has certain interesting and original attributes. Decisions and laws may be passed at a trans-governmental level, but they are… Tony Judt
“ Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine alternatives. Tony Judt
“ A closed circle of opinion or ideas into which discontent or opposition is never allowed—or allowed only within circumscribed and stylized limits—loses its capacity to respond energetically or imagina… Tony Judt
“ Sense of shared citizenship. This sentiment was crucial to the formation of modern states and the peaceful societies they governed. Tony Judt
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“ Even if the students of Berkeley, Berlin and Bangalore share a common set of interests, these do not translate into community. Space matters. And politics is a function of space—we Tony Judt
