Tony Judt Quotes
We need to learn... how war brutalises and degrades winners and losers alike and what happens to us when, having heedlessly waged war for no good reason, we are encouraged to inflate and demonise our enemies in order to justify that war's indefinite continuance.
Judt, Tony. Reappraisals: Reflections on the Forgotten Twentieth Century. Penguin Press, 2008.
Evelyn John St. Loo Strachey
Samuel Langhorne Clemens, 1835-1910
Although a very aggressive military commander, Grant did not approve of proposals to have wars of extermination which many called for against different Native American tribes.
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.
