"If we remain grotesquely unequal, we shall lose all sense of fraternity: and fraternity, for all its fatuity as a political objective, turns out to be the necessary condition of politics itself."

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Source : Tony Judt (2010). “Ill Fares the Land”, p.93, Penguin

Tony Judt

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“What some people interpret as brooding melancholy is serenity. I don't feel required to grasp all the time.”
“The great thing about fashion is that it always looks forward.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Into all our lives, in many simple, familiar, homely ways, God infuses this element of joy from the surprises of life, which unexpectedly brighten our days and fill our eyes with light.”
“People love talking, and I have never been a huge talker. I carry on an inner monologue, but the words often don't reach my lips.”
“We need to expect to pay a price if we want to make our lives better, but more importantly, we need to expect to pay a price for just leaving things as they are.”
“And who in time knows whither we may vent the treasure of our tongue, to what strange shores this gain of our best glories shall be sent, 't unknowing Nations with our stores? What worlds in the yet unformed Occident may come refined with the accents that are ours?”

Source : Samuel Daniel, “Musophilus Containing A General Defence Of All Learning (Ex”
“Every astronaut flew into space for a living. But while NASA has not solved the security problems, I would not put me back into a shuttle - and no other astronaut. The confidence is shaken.”
“Education is not a function of any church or even of a city or a state; it is a function of all mankind .”

Source : "Generation of Vipers". Book by Philip Wylie, 1942.

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