No original: "Moral seriousness in public life is like pornography: hard to define but you know it when you see it. It describes a coherence of intention and action, an ethic of political responsibility. All politics is the art of the possible. But art too has its ethic."
O Chalé da Memória (2010)
Fonte: Capítulo III - Austeridade. Tradução de Celso Nogueira.
Tony Judt: Política
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No original: "If there is no single good, then there is likely no single form of analysis that captures all the various forms of the good, and no single political logic that can master all of ethics."
Pensando o Século XX (2012)
Fonte: Capítulo 6 - Geração do Entendimento: Liberal Europeu Oriental. Tradução de Otacílio Nunes.
No original: "We—the left, academics, teachers—have abandoned politics to those for whom actual power is far more interesting than its metaphorical implications. Political correctness, gender politics, and above all hypersensitivity to wounded sentiments (as though there were a right not to be offended): this will be our legacy."
O Chalé da Memória (2010)
Fonte: Capítulo XXI - Mulheres, Mulheres, Mulheres. Tradução de Celso Nogueira.