Christopher

“Loss is loss, and nothing is gained by calling it by a nicer name.”
― Tony Judt

“Love, it seems to me, is the condition in which one is most contentedly oneself.”
― Tony Judt, The Memory Chalet

“The revolutionary Terror, which is attacked for its revolutionary tribunal, its law of suspects and its guillotine, was a process welded to a regime of popular sovereignty in which the object was to conquer tyranny or die for liberty. This Terror was willed by those who, having won sovereign power by dint of insurrection, refused to let this be destroyed by counter-revolutionary enemies”
― Sophie Wahnich, In Defence of the Terror: Liberty or Death in the French Revolution

“The moral courage required to hold a different view and to press it upon irritated readers or unsympathetic listeners remains everywhere in short supply.”
― Tony Judt, Ill Fares the Land