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Tony Judt Quotes

British - Historian | January 2, 1948 - August 6, 2010

I do think we're on the edge of a terrifying world, and that many young people know that but don't know how to talk about it.

People World Think Edge Know Young

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.

Respect Myself People Believe Single

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.

History Writing Reading Strange Saw

Obviously a primary liberal conviction is that we should be tolerant of other peoples' convictions. But if we believe in something, we had better find ways to say so convincingly.

Believe Better Find Say Conviction

I was born in 1948, so I'm a '60s kid, and in the '60s everyone talked all the time, endlessly, about socialism versus capitalism, about political choices, ideology, Marxism, revolution, 'the system' and so on.

Time Socialism Capitalism Choices

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 who don't think to ask, 'What can the state do that is good?'

Positive Good People Think Wrong

No one wants to live in a wheelchair unable to talk, only winking once for yes and twice for no. It's perfectly reasonable that there will come a point where the balance of judgment of life over death swings the other way.

Life Live Death Balance Way Talk

I see myself as, first and above all, a teacher of history; next, a writer of European history; next, a commentator on European affairs; next, a public intellectual voice within the American left; and only then an occasional, opportunistic participant in the pained American discussion of the Jewish matter.

Teacher History Myself Voice Matter

It does irritate me when I am described as a controversialist and commentator on Israel.

I Am Me Israel Irritate Does Am

You don't have to be Jewish to understand the history of Europe in the 20th century, but it helps.

History You Understand Jewish Europe

I'm not sure I've learned anything new about life; but I've had to think harder about death and what comes after for other people.

Life Death People Think New Sure

Why is it that here in the United States we have such difficulty even imagining a different sort of society from the one whose dysfunctions and inequalities trouble us so?

Society Trouble Why Difficulty Here

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