It's important to remember that World War II was experienced very much as a continuity in that sense. Most of World War II in most of Europe wasn't a war; it was an occupation. The war was at the beginning and the end, except in Germany and the Soviet Union, and even there really only at the end. So the rest of time it's an occupation, which in some ways was experienced as an extension of the interwar period. World War II was simply an extreme form, in a whole new key, of the disruption of normal life that began in 1914.
Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish. - Tony Judt
Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish.
- Tony Judt
We need to start talking about inequality again; we need to start talking about the inequities and unfairnesses and the injustices of an excessively … - Tony Judt
We need to start talking about inequality again; we need to start talking about the inequities and unfairnesses and the injustices of an excessively …
Contrast 1968, when the CEO of General Motors took home, in pay and benefits, about sixty-six times the amount paid to a typical GM worker. Today the… - Tony Judt
Contrast 1968, when the CEO of General Motors took home, in pay and benefits, about sixty-six times the amount paid to a typical GM worker. Today the…
We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth. - Tony Judt
We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.
Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past. - Tony Judt
Social democracy does not represent an ideal future; it does not even represent the ideal past.
History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same. - Tony Judt
History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same.
If we have learned nothing else from the 20th century, we should at least have grasped that the more perfect the answer, the more terrifying its cons… - Tony Judt
If we have learned nothing else from the 20th century, we should at least have grasped that the more perfect the answer, the more terrifying its cons…
If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants - Tony Judt
If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants
Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world. - Tony Judt
Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world.
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