“ Why are we so sure that some planning, or progressive taxation, or the collective ownership of public goods, are intolerable restrictions on liberty; whereas closed-circuit television cameras, state b… Tony Judt
“ The implicit consensus of the postwar decades was now broken, and a new, decidedly unnatural consensus was beginning to emerge around the primacy of private interest. Tony Judt
“ The absence of trust is clearly inimical to a well-run society. The great Jane Jacobs noted as much with respect to the very practical business of urban life and the maintenance of cleanliness and civ… Tony Judt
“ The EEC was grounded in weakness, not strength. As Spaak’s 1956 report emphasized, ‘Europe, which once had the monopoly of manufacturing industries and obtained important resources from its overseas p… Tony Judt
“ Nonetheless, he was sensitive not just to the need for countercyclical economic policies to head off future depression, but also to the prudential virtues of ‘the social security state’. Tony Judt
“ Moreover, a social service provided by a private company does not present itself as a collective good to which all citizens have a right. Tony Judt
“ It is tempting to conform: community life is a lot easier where everyone appears to agree with everyone else, and where dissent is blunted by the conventions of compromise. Tony Judt
“ What an enormous longing for a new human order there was in the era between the world wars, and what a miserable failure to live up to it.’(Arthur Koestler) Tony Judt
“ Something is profoundly wrong with the way we live today. For thirty years we have made a virtue out of the pursuit of material self-interest: indeed this very pursuit now constitutes whatever remains… Tony Judt
“ So why has this potentially self-destructive system of economic arrangements lasted? Probably because of habits of restraint, honesty and moderation which accompanied its emergence. Tony Judt
“ Silence over Europe’s recent past was the necessary condition for the construction of a European future. Tony Judt
“ La Primera Guerra Mundial destruyó la vieja Europa; la Segunda Guerra Mundial generó las condiciones para una nueva. Tony Judt
“ Usually without giving the matter too much thought, we see ourselves as part of a civic community transcending generations. Tony Judt
“ We have entered an age of insecurity—economic insecurity, physical insecurity, political insecurity. Tony Judt
“ We have become insensible to the human costs of apparently rational social policies, especially when we are advised that they will contribute to overall prosperity and thus—implicitly—to our separate… Tony Judt
