Quotes by : Tony Judt

I see myself as, first and above all, a teacher of history; next, a writer of European history; next,....

The historian’s task is not to disrupt for the sake of it, but it is to tell what is almost always....

We have responsibilities for others, not just across space but across time. We have responsibilities....

What has gone catastrophically wrong in England and the States is that for 30 years we've lost the ability....

Why is it that here in the United States we have such difficulty even imagining a different sort of society....

If we have learned nothing else from the 20th century, we should at least have grasped that the more....

No one wants to live in a wheelchair unable to talk, only winking once for yes and twice for no. It's....

in a constitutionally ordered state, where laws are derived from broad principles of right and wrong....

We need to learn... how war brutalises and degrades winners and losers alike and what happens to us when,....

the military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of its....