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I can still boss people around. I can still write. I can still read. I can still eat, and I can still have very strong views.
Tony Judt
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Tony Judt
Age: 62 †
Born: 1948
Born: January 2
Died: 2010
Died: August 6
Essayist
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Non-Fiction Writer
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Tony Robert Judt
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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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Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world.
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Judaism for me is a sensibility of collective self-questioning and uncomfortable truth-telling. I feel a debt of responsibility to this past. It is why I am Jewish.
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Apparently, the line you take on Israel trumps everything else in life.
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Israel today is bad for the Jews.
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History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same.
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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 don't believe that one should have one-size-fits-all moral rules for international political action.
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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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I grew up in a world where the social democratic state was the norm, not the exception.
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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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We have responsibilities for others, not just across space but across time. We have responsibilities to people who came before us. They left us a world of institutions, ideas or possibilities for which we, in turn, owe them something. One of the things we owe them is not to squander them.
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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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It does irritate me when I am described as a controversialist and commentator on Israel.
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The people whose necks hurt when I write about the Middle East tend to live in Brooklyn or Boca Raton: the kind of Zionist who pays another man to live in Israel for him. I have nothing but contempt for such people.
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If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants
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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've lost count of the interviews I've done about my illness and its relationship to my ideas and writing.
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Reality is a powerful solvent.
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Above all, the thrall in which an ideology holds a people is best measured by their collective inability to imagine alternatives.
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