Best quotes by Tony Judt on World

Checkout quotes by Tony Judt on World

• ‟ There is nothing to be said for being crippled. You don't see the world better or clearer, nor do you develop some special set of skills by way of compensation.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ For Europe to play a part in the world on the scale of its wealth and its population and its capacities, Europe has to be united in some way, and Europe is not united.

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• ‟ I grew up in a world where the social democratic state was the norm, not the exception.

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• ‟ 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.

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• ‟ I went to live on a kibbutz, and I'd idealized the world of collective, agrarian work, where everyone was equal, everyone contributed, that all this awful European intellectual stuff just fell away.

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• ‟ I think Bush was seen as someone who was disentangling America from the connections that it had with the outside world, that it found encumbering for domestic purposes.

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• ‟ In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.

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• ‟ We have responsibilities for others, not just across space but across time. We have responsibilities to people who came before us. They left us a world of institutions, ideas or possibilities for which we, in turn, owe them something. One of the things we owe them is not to squander them.

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