“ What has gone catastrophically wrong in England and the States is that for 30 years we've lost the ability to talk about the state in positive terms. We've raised a generation or two of young people w… Tony Judt
“ While many people were irritated at over-mighty trade unions or insensitive bureaucrats, they were unwilling to countenance a wholesale retreat. The social democratic consensus and its institutional i… Tony Judt
“ 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
“ What we have been watching is the steady shift of public responsibility onto the private sector to no discernible collective advantage. Tony Judt
“ However, poverty—whether measured by infant mortality, life expectancy, access to medicine and regular employment or simple inability to purchase basic necessities—has increased steadily since the 197… Tony Judt
“ 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. Tony Judt
“ Privatization reverses a centuries-long process whereby the state took on things that individuals could not or would not do. Tony Judt
“ The history of the 20th century West is in large measure the history of efforts to answer these questions. The responses proved spectacularly successful: Tony Judt
“ The disappearance of so many regimes so closely bound to a revolutionary narrative marked the death knell of a 200-year promise of radical progress. Tony Judt
“ Size and homogeneity are of course not transferable. There is no way for India or the USA to become Austria or Norway, and in their purest form the social democratic welfare states of Europe are simpl… Tony Judt
“ Keynes knew perfectly well that fascist economic policy could never have succeeded in the long-run without war, occupation and exploitation. Tony Judt
“ Even after the Allies emerged triumphant in 1945, these concerns were not forgotten: depression and fascism remained ever-present in men's minds. The urgent question was not how to celebrate a magnifi… Tony Judt
“ Dissent and dissidence are overwhelmingly the work of the young. It is not by chance that the men and women who initiated the French Revolution, like the reformers and planners of the New Deal and pos… Tony Judt
“ Between 1983 and 2001, mistrustfulness increased markedly in the US, the UK and Ireland—three Tony Judt
