I can still boss people around. I can still write. I can still read. I can still eat, and I can still have very strong views.
Tony JudtHow should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else?
Tony JudtIf 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 consequences. Incremental improvements upon unsatisfactory circumstances are the best that we can hope for, and probably all we should seek.
Tony JudtWe no longer ask of a judicial ruling or a legislative act: is it good? Is it fair? Is it just? Is it right? Will it help bring about a better society or a better world? Those used to be the political questions, even if they invited no easy answers. We must learn once again to pose them.
Tony Judt