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Israel today is bad for the Jews.
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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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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There were various different keys in which European history had tended to be written. One is the lyrical key, the idea that somehow, in Bretton-Woods in 1945, a bunch of well-intentioned men got together and said, This can't go on let's build a European Union. And it just wasn't like that.
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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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But I'm English. We don't do uplifting.
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Unlike memory, which confirms and reinforces itself, history contributes to the disenchantment of the world.
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History always happens to us and nothing ever stays the same.
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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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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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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 grew up in a world where the social democratic state was the norm, not the exception.
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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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It does irritate me when I am described as a controversialist and commentator on Israel.
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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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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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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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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 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 words fall into disrepair, what will substitute? They are all we have
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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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I don't much mind being expelled from communities.
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