158 Quotes by Tony Judt

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.

History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same.

But I'm English. We don't do uplifting.

Apparently, the line you take on Israel trumps everything else in life.

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

I know exactly how and where I am going to die. The only question is when.

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.

I've lost count of the interviews I've done about my illness and its relationship to my ideas and writing.

Undergraduates today can select from a swathe of identity studies.... The shortcoming of all these para-academic programs is not that they concentrate on a given ethnic or geographical minority; it is that they encourage members of that minority to study themselves - thereby simultaneously negating the goals of a liberal education and reinforcing the sectarian and ghetto mentalities they purport to undermine.