Tony Judt Quotes & Sayings (Page 4)

“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.”

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

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

“At a certain point, to remain slightly tangential to wherever I was became a way of 'being Tony': by not being anything that everyone else was.”

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

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

“Nationalist, anti-European, anti-immigrant, anti-Muslim public political figures, seem a worrying picture of a possible European future. We could still fall back into pre-Europe... and it worries me.”

“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.”

“I don't much mind being expelled from communities.”

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