“ The late Ralf Dahrendorf, an Anglo-German political scientist well placed to appreciate the scale of the changes he had seen in his lifetime, wrote of those optimistic years that [i]n many respects th… Tony Judt
“ The kind of society where trust is widespread is likely to be fairly compact and quite homogenous. Tony Judt
“ Speciálně v Československu dospěl ústup od politiky a názorová privatizace od rozdrcení pražského jara velmi daleko. „Normalizace, tedy čistky, jež odstranily tisíce mužů a žen ze všech veřejných či v… 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: Tony Judt
“ Romanians, however, paid a terrible price for Ceauşescu’s privileged status. In 1966, to increase the population—a traditional ‘Romanianist’ obsession—he prohibited abortion for women under forty with… Tony Judt
“ In the eyes of Hayek and his contemporaries, the European tragedy had thus been brought about by the shortcomings of the Left: first through its inability to achieve its objectives and then thanks to… Tony Judt
“ In September 1944 there were 7,487,000 foreigners in Germany, most of them there against their will, and they constituted 21 percent of the country’s labour force. Tony Judt
“ How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else? Tony Judt
“ Ever since 1792 the Revolutionary and counter-Revolutionary poles of French public life exemplified and reinforced the two-fold division of the country: for and against the Monarchy, for and against t… Tony Judt
“ The 20th century morality tale of ‘socialism vs. freedom’ or ‘communism vs. capitalism’ is misleading. Capitalism is not a political system; it is a form of economic life, compatible in practice with… Tony Judt
“ How was a liberal society to respond to the poverty, overcrowding, dirt, malnutrition and ill health of the new industrial cities? How were the working masses to be brought into the community—as voter… Tony Judt
“ We should by now have learned that politics remains national, even if economics does not: the history of the 20th century offers copious evidence that even in healthy democracies, bad political choice… Tony Judt
“ We face today two practical dilemmas. The first can be succinctly described as the return of the ‘social question’. Tony Judt
“ We are all the beneficiaries of those who went before us, as well as those who will care for us in old age or ill health. Tony Judt
“ V následujících letech Izrael znehodnotí, podkopá a nakonec zničí význam a využitelnost holokaustu a omezí jej na to, co v něm již dnes přiznaně mnoho lidí vidí, totiž izraelskou výmluvu pro vlastní n… Tony Judt
“ The welfare states of continental Europe—what the French call the Etat providence, or providential state—followed yet a third model. Here, the emphasis was primarily on protecting the employed citizen… Tony Judt
“ The victory of conservatism and the profound transformation brought about over the course of the next three decades was thus far from inevitable: it took an intellectual revolution. Tony Judt
“ The Iraq war saw the overwhelming majority of British and American public commentators abandon all pretense at independent thought and toe the government line. Tony Judt
