Tony Judt Quotes About Today

Quotes about: Today

• Israel today is bad for the Jews.

  Tony Judt

  Israel, Today, Jew

  Tony Judt (2015). “When the Facts Change: Essays, 1995-2010”, p.93, Penguin

• 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 CEO of Wal-Mart earns nine hundred times the wages of his average employee. Indeed, the wealth of the Wal-Mart founder's family in 2005 was estimated at about the same ($90 billion) as that of the bottom 40% of the US population: 120 million people.

  Tony Judt

  Home, Average, People

  Tony Judt (2010). “Ill Fares the Land”, p.16, Penguin

• Undergraduates today can select from a swathe of identity studies.... The shortcoming of all these para-academic programs is not that they concentrate on a given ethnic or geographical minority; it is that they encourage members of that minority to study themselves - thereby simultaneously negating the goals of a liberal education and reinforcing the sectarian and ghetto mentalities they purport to undermine.

  Tony Judt

  Ghetto, Goal, Identity

• Today, neither Left nor Right can find their footing.

  Tony Judt

  Today, Left

  Tony Judt (2010). “Ill Fares the Land”, p.12, Penguin

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