Author: Tony Judt

Quotes

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.

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.

- Tony Judt

You don't have to be Jewish to understand the history of Europe in the 20th century, but it helps.

You don't have to be Jewish to understand the history of Europe in the 20th century, but it helps.

- Tony Judt

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.

My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.

- Tony Judt

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'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.

- Tony Judt

Why is it that here in the United States we have such difficulty even imagining a different sort of society from the one whose dysfunctions and inequalities trouble us so?

Why is it that here in the United States we have such difficulty even imagining a different sort of society from the one whose dysfunctions and inequalities trouble us so?

- Tony Judt

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

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

- Tony Judt

Similar Authors: