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Tony Judt
Age: 62 †
Born: 1948
Born: January 2
Died: 2010
Died: August 6
Essayist
Historian
Non-Fiction Writer
Professor
Teacher
London
England
Tony Robert Judt
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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 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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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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Apparently, the line you take on Israel trumps everything else in life.
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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 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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I grew up in a world where the social democratic state was the norm, not the exception.
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Israel today is bad for the Jews.
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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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It does irritate me when I am described as a controversialist and commentator on Israel.
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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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We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.
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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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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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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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If active or concerned citizens forfeit politics, they thereby abandon their society to its most mediocre and venal public servants
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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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My history writing was based on what I saw in strange, exotic places rather than just reading books.
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