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I'm not sure I've learned anything new about life but I've had to think harder about death and what comes after for other people.
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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London
England
Tony Robert Judt
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Israel today is bad for the Jews.
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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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If words fall into disrepair, what will substitute? They are all we have
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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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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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I don't believe that one should have one-size-fits-all moral rules for international political action.
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I don't much mind being expelled from communities.
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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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We are not merely historians but also and always citizens.
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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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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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My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.
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We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.
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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 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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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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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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Social democracy does not represent an ideal future it does not even represent the ideal past.
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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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