Tony Judt Quotes


We have responsibilities for others, not just across space but across time. We have responsibilities to people who came before us. They left us a world of institutions, ideas or possibilities for which we, in turn, owe them something. One of the things we owe them is not to squander them.


Citations

Judt, Tony. Ill Fares the Land. Penguin Press, 2010.

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Tony Judt
Tony Judt
  • Born: January 2, 1948
  • Died: August 6, 2010
  • Nationality: English, American
  • Profession: Historian; Erich Maria Remarque Professor In European Studies At New York University

Tony Robert Judt FBA was an English-American historian, essayist and university professor who specialised in European history. Judt moved to New York and served as the Erich Maria Remarque Professor in European Studies at New York University, and Director of NYU's Erich Maria Remarque Institute. He was a frequent contributor to the New York Review of Books. In 1996 Judt was elected a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and in 2007 a corresponding Fellow of the British Academy.