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Tony Judt
Age: 62 †
Born: 1948
Born: January 2
Died: 2010
Died: August 6
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Tony Robert Judt
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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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The East European small countries have a sense of betrayal, of having been forgotten by Western leaders.
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As citizens of a free society, we have a duty to look critically at our world. But if we think we know what is wrong, we must act upon that knowledge.
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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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Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world.
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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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History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same.
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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.
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If we remain grotesquely unequal, we shall lose all sense of fraternity: and fraternity, for all its fatuity as a political objective, turns out to be the necessary condition of politics itself.
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But I'm English. We don't do uplifting.
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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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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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History can show you that it was one pile of bad stuff after another. It can also show you that there's been tremendous progress in knowledge, behaviour, laws, civilisation. It cannot show you that there was a meaning behind it.
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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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It does irritate me when I am described as a controversialist and commentator on Israel.
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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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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 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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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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