“ So what have Keynes’s ‘madmen in authority’ done with the ideas they inherited from defunct economists? They have set about dismantling the properly economic powers and initiatives of the state. Tony Judt
“ Schopnost evokovat Hitlera, Osvětim nebo Mnichov má své přednosti: alespoň se tak současnost dovolává minulosti, místo aby ji zcela ignorovala. Dnes to činíme amatérsky a stále více způsobem, kterým s… Tony Judt
“ Post-national, welfare-state, cooperative, pacific Europe was not born of the optimistic, ambitious, forward-looking project imagined in fond retrospect by today's Euro-idealists. It was the insecure… Tony Judt
“ Nothing, of course, is ever quite as good as we remember. The social democratic consensus and the welfare institutions of the postwar decades coincided with some of the worst town planning and public… Tony Judt
“ No basta, a fin de cuentas, con «matar al padre»: también es preciso comprenderlo. De lo contrario, en el peor de los casos, uno se arriesga a repetir sus mismos errores. Salvo Tony Judt
“ Men like Hayek or von Mises seemed doomed to professional and cultural marginality. Only when the welfare states whose failure they had so sedulously predicted began to run into difficulties did they… Tony Judt
“ Margaret Thatcher, like George W. Bush and Tony Blair after her, never hesitated to augment the repressive and information-gathering arms of central government. Tony Judt
“ La psicología, al fin y al cabo, y en este sentido guarda claras similitudes tanto con el marxismo como con la tradición judeocristiana, propone una narración de autoengaño, sufrimiento necesario, dec… Tony Judt
“ If government is the problem and society does not exist, then the role of the state is reduced once again to that of facilitator. Tony Judt
“ He [Gorbachev] did initially oppose the absorption of a united Germany into NATO; and even after conceding the point in principle* continued to insist that NATO troops not be allowed to move 300 kilom… Tony Judt
“ We lose faith not just in parliamentarians and congressmen, but in Parliament and Congress themselves. Tony Judt
“ Two world wars had habituated almost everyone to the inevitability of government intervention in daily life. Tony Judt
“ Stejně jako mnoho dalších přeživších se v této době cítili bezpečněji v poraženém Německu než v osvobozených zemích na východě. Tony Judt
“ Open societies will once again be urged to close in upon themselves, sacrificing freedom for ‘security’. Tony Judt
“ Had brought Stalin credibility and influence, in the counsels of governments and on the streets. Tony Judt
“ Decline, fear of strangers and an unfamiliar world—is corroding the trust and interdependence on which civil societies rest. Tony Judt
“ When Communism fell in 1989, the temptation for Western commentators to gloat triumphantly proved irresistible. This, it was declared, marked the end of History. Henceforth, the world belonged to libe… Tony Judt
“ What is the measurable cost of depriving isolated citizens of access to metropolitan resources? How much are we willing to pay for a good society? Tony Judt
