158 Quotes by Tony Judt

Love, it seems to me, is the condition in which one is most contentedly oneself.

After 1945 what happened was rather the opposite: with one major exception boundaries stayed broadly intact and people were moved instead.

It might be thought the height of poor taste to ascribe good fortune to a healthy man with a young family struck down at the age of sixty by an incurable degenerative disorder from which he must shortly die. But there is more than one sort of luck. To fall prey to a motor neuron disease is surely to have offended the Gods at some point, and there is nothing more to be said. But if you must suffer thus, better to have a well-stocked head...

Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.

Today, neither Left nor Right can find their footing.

If words fall into disrepair, what will substitute? They are all we have

If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants

I don't much mind being expelled from communities.

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.