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Tony Judt
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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
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Reality
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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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Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world.
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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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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 don't much mind being expelled from communities.
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History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same.
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Love consists in leaving the loved one space to be themselves while providing the security within which that self may flourish.
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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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Apparently, the line you take on Israel trumps everything else in life.
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If words fall into disrepair, what will substitute? They are all we have
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Israel today is bad for the Jews.
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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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If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants
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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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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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But I'm English. We don't do uplifting.
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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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We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.
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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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