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But I'm English. We don't do uplifting.
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Tony Judt
Age: 62 †
Born: 1948
Born: January 2
Died: 2010
Died: August 6
Essayist
Historian
Non-Fiction Writer
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London
England
Tony Robert Judt
English
Uplifting
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I was born accidentally. I lived accidentally in London. We nearly migrated to New Zealand. So much of my life has been a product of chance, I can't see a meaning in it at all.
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Social democracy does not represent an ideal future it does not even represent the ideal past.
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What I am against is false optimism: the notion either that things have to go well, or else that they tend to, or else that the default condition of historical trajectories is characteristically beneficial in the long-run.
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I don't much mind being expelled from communities.
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It does irritate me when I am described as a controversialist and commentator on Israel.
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I don't believe in an afterlife. I don't believe in a single or multiple godhead. I respect people who do, but I don't believe it myself.
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At a certain point, to remain slightly tangential to wherever I was became a way of 'being Tony': by not being anything that everyone else was.
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The East European small countries have a sense of betrayal, of having been forgotten by Western leaders.
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Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.
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There were various different keys in which European history had tended to be written. One is the lyrical key, the idea that somehow, in Bretton-Woods in 1945, a bunch of well-intentioned men got together and said, This can't go on let's build a European Union. And it just wasn't like that.
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After 1945 what happened was rather the opposite: with one major exception boundaries stayed broadly intact and people were moved instead.
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I don't believe that one should have one-size-fits-all moral rules for international political action.
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We need to start talking about inequality again we need to start talking about the inequities and unfairnesses and the injustices of an excessively divided society, divided by wealth, by opportunity, by outcome, by assets and so forth.
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I've lost count of the interviews I've done about my illness and its relationship to my ideas and writing.
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History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same.
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How should we begin to make amends for raising a generation obsessed with the pursuit of material wealth and indifferent to so much else?
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We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.
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Reality is a powerful solvent.
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If words fall into disrepair, what will substitute? They are all we have
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The military system of a nation is not an independent section of the social system but an aspect of its totality.
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