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Words can make the illness a subject I can master, and not one that one simply emotes over.
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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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Illness
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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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Reality is a powerful solvent.
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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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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.
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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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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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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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We are not merely historians but also and always citizens.
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We know what things cost but have no idea what they are worth.
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Social democracy does not represent an ideal future it does not even represent the ideal past.
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But I'm English. We don't do uplifting.
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Apparently, the line you take on Israel trumps everything else in life.
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Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world.
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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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